Beats Quote by Coventry Patmore Download Open image “The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.” — Coventry Patmore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beats Midges Sand Time Thousand Wings
“For, if I imp my wing on thine, Affliction shall advance the flight in me.” — George Herbert Copy Share Image
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue. — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat. — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
“Hearing "If I am not meant to fly, why do I have wings?" I jumped (Now I am wondering, because I do not know.… — Cynk Napp Copy Share Image
“But there may be a period, while the wings are just beginning to grow, when it cannot do so: and at that stage lumps… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews! — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
“ The Toys My little Son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes And moved and spoke in quiet grown-up wise, Having my law the seventh time disobey'd, I struck him, and dismiss'd With hard words and unkiss'd, —His Mother, who was patient, being dead. Then, fearing lest his grief should hinder sleep, I visited his bed, But found him slumbering deep,… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share
A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much. — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance. — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function; and she… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive. — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years. — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back at this… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a… — Chaz Brenchley Copy Share
I don't know about the rest of the world, but I know in our region everyone is gunning to beat us. We have a… — Landon Donovan Copy Share Image
Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water. — Baron Bilimoria Karan Bilimoria Copy Share Image
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
