Top 246 Linger Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!
While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.
I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.
Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.
You, yes, you, linger inside my heart The same you who stopped us before we could start.
We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate.
With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.
I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.
The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company
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.
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.
Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.
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.
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.
I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.
Never try to grow up too fast, but don't linger in the child you were
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.
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!
Your experiences are what made you what you are today. So when tragedy happens in people's lives, and things are left unsaid, it can be very unsettling. The lack of closure can linger.
Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.
Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
If you see faults in others, look the other way. Don't linger on imperfection.
A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt.
Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.
Remnants of the foreclosure crisis linger everywhere.
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.
Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.
One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.
When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.
While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.
Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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.
Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years.
I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.
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.
Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.
Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben - We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.
Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
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.
You can linger too long in your dreams.
I prefer to linger on the periphery before making a commitment.
With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.
I wrote 'Linger' in about eight minutes. But some songs will take weeks to write.
I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.
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.
If you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger?
I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers" Sam, Linger
Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.
I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally.
You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.
Sadly, the mainstream media doesn't like to linger very long on news stories that might present President Trump in a positive light.
If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger.
The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.
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.
I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.
That's my job as an actor - to go on and try to do the work so subtle and so fine and specific that the memories will linger for a long time.
