Hovers Quotes
47 quotes by 44 authors
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So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the…
— Ramakrishna
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What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the…
— Alan Ayckbourn
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The cloudlets are lazily sailing O'er the blue Atlantic sea; And mid the twilight there hovers A shadowy figure o'er me...
— Heinrich Heine
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When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads,…
— John Dryden
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What madness is this, inviting sable Death by warfare? It always hovers close and comes unforeseen on silent steps.
— Tibullus
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On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other…
— Peter L. Berger
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One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces…
— Bruce Feiler
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Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Invention hovers always a little above the rules.
— Mary Oliver
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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All things are in the hand of heaven, and Folly, eldest of Jove's daughters, shuts men's eyes to their destruction. She walks delicately, not on…
— Homer
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I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip…
— Michel Houellebecq
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My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning…
— Dave Eggers
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Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.
— Rita Mae Brown
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I feel like there's something terrible and wonderful and amazing that's just beyond my grasp. I have dreams about it. I do dream, by the…
— Michael Cunningham
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She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing…
— Stefan Zweig
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For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives…
— Brady Udall
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Too bad you didn't just take Max up on his offer, Four. Well, too bad for you, anyway," says Eric quietly as he clicks the…
— Veronica Roth
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When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge…
— Hope Edelman
Who Wrote These Hovers Quotes
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