Languishes Quotes

#1. Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Robert Kennedy

#2. For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a solemn joy. Face to face with Nature on the vast hills at eventide, who does not feel himself near to the Unseen?

William Henry Hudson

#3. Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

George Sand

#4. Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.

Washington Irving

#5. Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!

Margarita Gakis

#6. When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

Albert Camus

#7. When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.

Washington Irving

#8. I cannot tell why this heart languishes in silence. It is for small needs it never asks, or knows or remembers.

Rabindranath Tagore

#9. Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

Richard Steele

#10. I am very defective in all duties ... In prayer I wander and am formal ... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

William Carey

#11. Einstein once said, "If you can't explain a concept to a six-year-old, you don't fully understand it.

Claudia Welch

#12. To summarize, when we experience difficult or stressful situations, especially if we have had significant stresses earlier in life and if we are unable to express or show how we feel, we will be at risk for our bodies to experience pain.

Howard Schubiner

#13. But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.

Georg Solti

#14. What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

Ludwig Von Mises

#15. Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

Lewis Carroll

#16. (The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.

Chris Gardner

#17. It's not just about staying in touch with your friends, my dear girl. It is about giving yourself the gift of their company too.

Bronnie Ware

#18. There's always more to it. This is what history consists of. It is the sum total of the things they aren't telling us.

Don DeLillo

#19. Be intentional about your life and what you want to accomplish, but understand there's no choice you make that you can't change.

Gloria Feldt

#20. Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

James Dyson

#21. As her eyes scanned his face, he feared that she saw everything, right down t the core of him. Where his obsession with her was the strongest.
-Butch and Marissa

J.R. Ward