Hovers Quotes
47 quotes by 44 authors
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
— Lord Byron
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
— Sydney Brenner
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.
— Gustave Flaubert
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A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really…
— Wes Bentley
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We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.
— Ariana Franklin
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There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a…
— Robert Byron
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The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the…
— Ansel Adams
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Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between…
— Stephen Potter
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From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep…
— William Barrett
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Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the…
— Khalil Gibran
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
— Ralph Ellison
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The brilliance here is appropriation: space, form and interface combine to create a Jetsons sound machine. A dream of music access that just hovers, its…
— Tucker Viemeister
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All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the…
— George Washington
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Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape,…
— Marianne Williamson
Who Wrote These Hovers Quotes
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