Loiter Quotes

#1. If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#2. Dearest I cannot loiter here
in lather like a polar bear.

Robert Lowell

#3. It is better to go forward without an aim than loiter without an aim, and with surety much better than to retreat without an aim.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#4. Opportunities loiter in every corner. Everyone may see them, but it's only great leaders that stop by to give them lifts!

Israelmore Ayivor

#5. Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires; in this journey it is safe neither to loiter nor to rest, till thou hast attained thy journey's end; he that sits down a philosopher rises up an atheist.

Francis Quarles

#6. We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time; but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. Um, hello?" I raised a hand. "Not a traitor, and the Queen told us where to find you. Or do you think that we're such major badasses that we fought our way through the knowe to come and loiter at you in an imposing fashion? Because I've got to say I'm flattered.

Seanan McGuire

#11. Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. You must not wait, loiter, dilly-dally. You must force your way painfully through.

Cynthia Ozick

#12. Oh that I may never loiter on my heavenly journey.

David Brainerd

#13. Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.

William Penn

#14. Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.

Dejan Stojanovic

#15. Loiter in the neighborhood of a problem. After a while a solution strolls by.

Harold Rosenberg

#16. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream

Virginia Woolf

#17. [I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).

Richard Baxter

#18. I'm king of the dead and I make my throne On a monument slab of marble cold; And my scepter of rule is the spade I hold: Come they from cottage or come they from hall, Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all! Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin I gather them in, I gather them in!

Benjamin

#19. My object is merely to give the reader a general introduction into an abode where, if so disposed, he may linger and loiter with me day by day until we gradually become familiar with all its localities.

Washington Irving

#20. The whole scene was indecent, mad. It smacked of murder and assassination.

Charles Bukowski

#21. Either you play the game or let the game play you and be that broke sucka talkin bout I stayed true

J. Cole

#22. A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

Nicolas Roeg

#23. Her teacup and the Heckler & Koch were both where she could reach them.

Haruki Murakami

#24. When I was 17, I was hyperactive and annoyed my teachers.

Keegan Allen

#25. Of all studios that should be doing 2-D animation, it should be Disney.

John Lasseter

#26. The Archive makes us monsters. And then it breaks the ones who get too strong, and buries the ones who know too much.

Victoria Schwab

#27. Base men who prosper are unenviable.

Aeschylus

#28. And who are you?" cried one agape, Shuddering in the gloaming light. "I know not" said the second Shape, "I only died last night.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#29. At the very least, an understanding of evolution can offer a basis for coming together as rational beings to agree on the answers to difficult question.

Greg Graffin

#30. I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

Evan Parker