Lingering Quotes
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Yet, when confinement's lingering hour was done, Our sport, our studies, and our souls were one: Together we impell'd the flying ball; Together waited in our tutor's hall; Together join'd in cricket's manly toil.
lord byron— Hours of Idleness, "Childish Recollections" (1807). Of his childhood days at Harrow public school.
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
sitting bull— Recorded by Charles Larpenteur at Fort Union in 1867. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 73.
They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear.
Henry Vaughan— "They Are All Gone," st. 1.
Small service is true service while it lasts: Of humblest friends, bright Creature! scorn not one; The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew drop from the Sun.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, To a Child, Written in Her Album.
But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
Oliver Goldsmith— Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (1764), line 172.
I settled at Cold Mountain long ago Already it seems like ages Wandering free I roam the woods and streams lingering to watch things be themselves Men don’t come this far into the mountains Where white clouds gather and billow Dry grass makes a comfortable mattress The blue sky is a fine quilt Happy to pillow my head on the rock I leave heaven and earth to endless change
— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011), tr. Wandering Poet, ISBN 978-0-6151-6006-1 ISBN 0615160069 LOC Number 2007937840
Say, lingering fair! why comes the birth Of your brave soul so slowly forth?
Richard Crashaw— 1646 'To the Noblest and Best of Ladies, the Countess of Denbigh'.
Whenlovegrows diseased,thebestthing we candoisto put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
Sir George Etherege— 1676 The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act 2, sc.2.
Whereas my birth and spirit rather took The way that takes the town; Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, And wrap me in a gown.
George Herbert— 'Affliction (1)', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).
Thank Heaven! the crisis The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last And the fever called 'Living' Is conquered at last.
— 1850 'ForAnnie'.
Theyare all gone into the world of light, And I alone sit lingering here; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear.
Henry Vaughan— 1650 Silex Scintillans,'TheyAreAll Gone'.
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 büchner— Act II (Leonce and Lena (1838))
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— Act II, sc. ii
Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined operation left a lingering, individual spell. I naturally went to Hyde Park to hear the orators, the best of the many free entertainments on offer in the capital. I heard the purest milk of the world flowing, then as now, from the platform of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
michael foot— Debts of Honour, 1980.
But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
Oliver Goldsmith— Line 172. (The Traveller (1764))
The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?
david horowitz— Horowitz, David (January 3, 2001). "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks - and Racist Too". FrontPageMagazine.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-17.
I thought Jack Valenti was wrong about most of the tech-policy issues that he spoke about, but I'm going to miss that guy... One of the lingering regrets of my career is showing up a few minutes late to a Post boardroom luncheon with Valenti that had started with him denouncing a column I'd written about the MPAA's "technological totalitarianism." When I sat down, then-managing editor Steve Coll leaned over to summarize Valenti's opening statement as "he took your name in vain"; I felt like I'd missed the whole show.
jack valenti— Rob Pegoraro in
The key institutions of Soviet power - though weakened, demoralized, and corrupted - were still there. Symbolic of that reality and of the lingering hold of the Communist past was the historic centerpiece of Moscow: the continued presence of the Lenin mausoleum.
zbigniew brzezinski— Chapter 4, The Black Hole, p. 104
And the world's like a science And I'm like a secret And I saw you lingering still, still I saw you lingering still
zooey deschanel— "Lingering Still"
Leaves glowing in the sun, zealous hum of bumblebees, From afar, from somewhere beyond the river, echoes of lingering voices And the unhurried sounds of a hammer gave joy not only to me. Before the five senses were opened, and earlier than any beginning They waited, ready, for all those who would call themselves mortals, So that they might praise, as I do, life, that is, happiness.
czesław miłosz— "An Hour" (1972), trans. Czes?aw Mi?osz and Lillian Vallee
Thank Heaven! the crisis The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last And the fever called "Living" Is conquered at last.
edgar allan poe— "For Annie", st. 1 (1849).
A wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Canto I, st. 42.
Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as " in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us.
— Alexander Maclaren, p. 11. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!
john clare— John Clare, The Rural Muse, Burthorp Oak.
Scientologists believe that most human problems can be traced to lingering spirits of an extraterrestrial people massacred by their ruler, Xenu, over 75 million years ago. These spirits attach themselves by “clusters” to individuals in the contemporary world, causing spiritual harm and negatively influencing the lives of their hosts.
— Judge Leonie Brinkema (October 4, 1996) United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division. Religious Technology Center v. Lerma, "Memorandum Opinion on Religious Technology Center's And Arnaldo Lerma's Motions For Summary Judgment". CIV.A. No. 95-1107-A. — quoted in Prendergast, Alan (March 6, 1997). "Nightmare on the Net: A web of intrigue surrounds the high-stakes legal brawl between FACTnet and the Church of Scientology". Denver Westword News (Village Voice Media). Retrieved on 2009-03-08.
Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.
— Subramanya Bharathi, as quoted in "The People's Poet" by N. Nandhivarman in TamilSydney (7 January 2008)
Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined operation left a lingering, individual spell. I naturally went to Hyde Park to hear the orators, the best of the many free entertainments on offer in the capital. I heard the purest milk of the world flowing, then as now, from the platform of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
michael foot— Michael Foot, Debts of Honour, 1980.
Where music dwells lingering and wandering on as loth to die, Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.
william wordsworth— Part III, No. 43 - Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge.
