Lingering Quotes

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.
Marianne Williamson

Peace, Men, Woman

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.
Carl Lewis

Through, Chance, Season

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
Yann Martel

Music, Work, Nature

Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Cannot, Muslim, Existence

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
Georg Buchner

Life, Time, Death

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.
Roland Gift

Long, Light, Half

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.
Natalie Coughlin

Around, Getting, Stand

The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.
Hoagy Carmichael

Wanted, Write, Found

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.
Edward Forbes

Life, Become, Few

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
Henry Vaughan

Alone, Light, Here

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
George Etherege

Love, Best, Death

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