Quotes about Linger

I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers" Sam, Linger Votes: 3

You can climb too high for your own good. Linger too long at high altitudes and your hearing dulls and your eyesight dims. Votes: 3

There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out." "Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger. Votes: 3

O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet. Votes: 3

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art. Votes: 3

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear! Votes: 3

Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good is best when soonest wrought,Linger'd labours come to nought. Votes: 3

All these perfect days, made of glass Put on the shelf where they can cast perfect shadows that stretch and grow on the imperfect days down below. ... perfect shadows that shift and glow... ... perfect shadows that shift and grow..." "Sam singing on page 256 of Linger. Votes: 3

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them? Votes: 2

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions. Votes: 2

One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want. Votes: 2

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you. Votes: 2

Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years. Votes: 2

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football. Votes: 2

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories. Votes: 2

Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US. Votes: 2

I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today. Votes: 2

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories. Votes: 2

My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year. Votes: 2

To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive. Votes: 2

I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger. Votes: 2

Many retail stores have consumer trackers that study how long your eyes linger on one product, whether you follow it through by touch, and things that you buy. You can redesign things on a shelf, all by tracking such information. Votes: 2

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask. Votes: 2

Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm; it calls us to feel, think and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful. A life without delight is only half a life. Votes: 2

What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas. Votes: 2

Ultimately, it's not my job to judge the 'Housewives' - we don't editorialize on the show; we really leave it to the audience. We have a certain wink, which is the Bravo wink. We may linger on a shot or we may let something play out longer, but we leave it to you. Votes: 2

Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival. Votes: 2

Allowing suspects to indefinitely linger in our cells is, in fact, detrimental to our national security goals. If a suspect is proven to be a terrorist, for the sake of the victims and deterring any future attacks, he or she must be brought to justice. America has done this with Timothy McVeigh and hundreds of other terrorists. Votes: 2

Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on. Votes: 0

You can linger too long in your dreams... Votes: 0

A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt. Votes: 0

How can old wounds heal while maggots linger so richly? Votes: 0

Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them. Votes: 0

Their promise, my children's possibilities, still linger in our home. Votes: 0

I prefer to linger on the periphery before making a commitment. Votes: 0

While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn. Votes: 0

We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate. Votes: 0

The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson. Votes: 0

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be. Votes: 0

Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. Votes: 0

Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. Votes: 0

If you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger? Votes: 0

If you see faults in others, look the other way. Don't linger on imperfection. Votes: 0

You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard. Votes: 0

Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger--" Votes: 0

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It's those that bring us grief that linger. Votes: 0

Never try to grow up too fast, but don't linger in the child you were Votes: 0

Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger-- Votes: 0

Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist. Votes: 0

Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart! Votes: 0

Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn. Votes: 0

I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints. Votes: 0

With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet. Votes: 0

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see. Votes: 0

You, yes, you, linger inside my heart The same you who stopped us before we could start. Votes: 0

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself. Votes: 0

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love. Votes: 0

the goal is to keep yourself moving, remember? don't linger. don't hover. you are not going to stay. Votes: 0

Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger. Votes: 0

Do not trap yourself into an owl's hooting soundwhere sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound Votes: 0

Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear. Votes: 0

Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible. Votes: 0

Everybody loves winning, but we should not linger on the difference between winning and losing"¦But Is losing failing? Votes: 0

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. Votes: 0

They linger near the back door, forehead to forehead and curved like statues as their lips whisper and brush together. Votes: 0

...and should I die in her care, I would leave smiling because, I will linger in the hills beside her... Votes: 0

I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger. Votes: 0

When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received. Votes: 0

Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone. Votes: 0

When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don't at first recognize it for what it is. Votes: 0

Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way. Votes: 0

Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing. Votes: 0

In my life I find that memories of the spirit linger and sweeten long after memories of the brain have faded. Votes: 0

Ode to the Chamber...linger here amidst the chamberin which we embrace our lovetalk to me of sonnetsand call me turtledove... Votes: 0

Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself. Votes: 0

if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love. Votes: 0

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company Votes: 0

I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line. Votes: 0

Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve. Votes: 0

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more. Votes: 0

You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers... Votes: 0

Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price? Votes: 0

All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories. Votes: 0

Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be forgiven. And then let us linger there to learn how to forgive. Votes: 0

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop. Votes: 0

Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben - We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate. Votes: 0

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately. Votes: 0

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words. Votes: 0

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish. Votes: 0

I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself. Votes: 0

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language. Votes: 0

I'm supposed to hate you for what you did, I think. But her eyes linger on me in a way that refuses to let me. Votes: 0

The devil tryna rip out my soul. Lost my soul. I'll see you in hell. I see the devil linger on, stuck in my hell. Votes: 0

Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south! Votes: 0

You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind. Votes: 0

A mighty, eternal and incomprehensible force pushes us all forward. But while all are so being pushed, many linger and look back. Unconsciously, they oppose this force. Votes: 0

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories. Votes: 0

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea. Votes: 0

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea. Votes: 0

Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. Votes: 0

He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged there on mine. And he was right. It did. It always had. Votes: 0

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all. Votes: 0

The pageant has passed. That day is over. But we linger, loath to think we shall see them no more together - these men, these horses, these colors afield. Votes: 0

Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave Votes: 0

It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind. Votes: 0

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. Votes: 0

Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves to release us from the shackles of our past. The pain of those who wounded us may linger but it needn't overshadow our happiness. Votes: 0

As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there. Votes: 0

Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there's so much worth saving. Votes: 0

Everyone makes choices in life. Some bad, some good. It's called living, and if you want to bow out, then go right ahead. But don't do it halfway. Don't linger in whiner's limbo. Votes: 0

We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips. Votes: 0

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life Votes: 0

The death of a man brings a stop to his life, but not an end to his destiny. When destiny is well fulfilled, impacts linger behind as at the time life goes to hide! Votes: 0

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories Votes: 0

Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low. Votes: 0

The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black. Votes: 0

I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence, and then they strike. The secret is out. You're dying. Votes: 0