“ What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. ”
- Georges Bernanos- Copy
- 440
“ Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 49
“ Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 485
“ Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. ”
- Garrison Keillor- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance. ”
- Graham Clarke- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
- 3.6K
“ 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 menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves. ”
- Sir William Temple- Copy
- 2K
“ Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is — I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at — a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rush towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession. ”
- Isaac Watts- Copy
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“ Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle. ”
- Rainer Maria Rilke- Copy
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“ Happiness… she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child. ”
- David Grayson- Copy
- 3.9K
“ 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 towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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