Coventry One Quotes & Sayings

The Coventry School Committee has been ahead of the curve in addressing the nutrition needs of our students. This committee is an extension of a process begun more than a year ago to ensure the foods we offer had high nutritional value. — Michael Reeves

Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses. — Coventry Patmore

The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O. — Coventry Patmore

To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light. — Coventry Patmore

I take any opportunity I can to raise our country's flag really high and get some shining positive light on things over there. — Kirsty Coventry

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

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

Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances. — Coventry Patmore

The Spirit of man is like a kite, which rises by means of those very forces which seem to oppose its rise; the tie that joins it to the earth, the opposing winds of temptation, and the weight of earth-born affections which it carries with it into the sky. — Coventry Patmore

Would anyone remember the story of Godiva if she lowered Coventry's taxes without taking her clothes off? — Daniel Donoghue

A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much. — Coventry Patmore

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 gives herself to him who succeeds in convincing her that she, of all others, is best able to discharge it for him. A woman without this kind of "vanity" is a monster. — Coventry Patmore

How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life! — Coventry Patmore

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence. — Coventry Patmore

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. — Coventry Patmore

If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?' — Coventry Patmore

When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers. — Jerry Dammers

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance. — Kirsty Coventry

I drew my bride, beneath the moon,Across my threshold; happy hour!But, ah, the walk that afternoonWe saw the water-flags in flower! — Coventry Patmore

Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance. — Coventry Patmore

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century. — Coventry Patmore

It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness. — Coventry Patmore

I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living. — Brendan Coyle

It is a sore thing to have laboured along and scaled the arduous hilltops, and when all is done, find humanity indifferent to your achievement. Hence physicists condemn the unphysical; financiers have only a superficial toleration for those who know little of stocks; literary persons despise the unlettered; and people of all pursuits combine to disparage those who have none.
But though this is one difficulty of the subject, it is not the greatest. You could not be put in prison for speaking against industry, but you can be sent to Coventry for speaking like a fool. The greatest difficulty with most subjects is to do them well; therefore, please to remember this is an apology. It is certain that much may be judiciously argued in favour of diligence; only there is something to be said against it, and that is what, on the present occasion, I have to say. — Robert Louis Stevenson

There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title. — Kirsty Coventry

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so. — Coventry Patmore

What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God. — Coventry Patmore

Life is not life at all without delight. — Coventry Patmore

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years. — Coventry Patmore

Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions. — Coventry Patmore

Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod. The winter comes: the frozen rut Is bound with silver bars; the white drift heaps against the hut; and night is pierced with stars. — Coventry Patmore

None thrives for long upon the happiest dream. — Coventry Patmore

People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It's really important. — Kirsty Coventry

I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Everyone there including President Mugabe knows something needs to change because so many people are hurting. — Kirsty Coventry

The moods of love are like the wind,
And none knows whence or why they rise. — Coventry Patmore

I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie. — Bobby Gould

Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. Not even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg. — Martin Caidin

Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it. — Coventry Patmore

Alessandro del Piero reminds me of Robert Rosario when I had him at Coventry. — Bobby Gould

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom. — Coventry Patmore

The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn. — Coventry Patmore

Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book. — Coventry Patmore

O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One. — Coventry Patmore

The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case. — Martin Caidin

Ah, wasteful woman, she who may
On her sweet self set her own price,
Knowing man cannot choose but pay,
How has she cheapened paradise;
How given for nought her priceless gift,
How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine,
Which, spent with due respective thrift,
Had made brutes men and men divine. — Coventry Patmore