Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese

The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

Carl Lewis
Carl Lewis

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.

Chris Raschka
Chris Raschka

Usually, a number of events will be going on around me to start me on a book. What I mean is, I will have read a poem or seen a picture that is lingering in my mind.

Christine and the Queens
Christine and the Queens

No matter what you eventually become - free, empowered - the lingering feeling of 'once an outsider, always an outsider' is very vivid for me.

Darell Hammond
Darell Hammond

Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.

Debbie Ford
Debbie Ford

As you say goodbye to lingering disappointments and unattended grief, you will discover that every person, situation and painful incident comes bearing gifts.

Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Johnson

There's this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn't do TV.

Edward Forbes
Edward Forbes

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.

George Etherege
George Etherege

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.

Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan

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