Doves Quotes
57 quotes by 54 authors
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'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem…
— James Fenton
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Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
— Charles Krauthammer
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People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you…
— Unknown Author
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The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered…
— Michael Chabon
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Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die
— Nikolai Gogol
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Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the…
— Albert Camus
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Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god, my laments moments…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth…
— Douglas Coupland
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Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Life with you was lovely—and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink ‘v’ in the middle and…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my…
— Pablo Neruda
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Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis sharin' a cup…
— Teresa Medeiros
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When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He…
— Dennis Lehane
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A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the young…
— Jane Yolen
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We are the nation of dreams. We are seers. We are wizards. We speak in visions. Our letters are like flocks of doves, released from…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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The hallway led me to the stairway of a million steps. My leg screamed in protest. I sighed and started climbing. I just had to…
— Ilona Andrews
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Lord, let me write, leave me autistic and typing until my windows bust into a thousand silver doves and I know the poem is done.
— Buddy Wakefield
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My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with…
— Christina Rossetti
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Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In…
— William Shakespeare
Who Wrote These Doves Quotes
54 authors contributed a total of 57 Doves Quotes, led by these top contributors: