Covington Quotes & Sayings

We are all but borrowed energy — Perry Covington

I'm serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope. — Vicki Covington

All I know is that I am excessively calculating, especially when I appear not to be. — Dennis Covington

Feeling after God is dangerous business.
— Dennis Covington

THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN. — Harold Covington

It's not visual. He's not. You know him by his work, for one thing, and that part is visual, I suppose, isn't it? The sky, moon, stars, and trees, all those exotic colors you're apt to see in birds' feathers. When you look at a painting, you don't try to visualize the artist, do you? But you know somebody painted it or it wouldn't be there. — Vicki Covington

Endings are the most important part of stories. They grow inevitably from the stories themselves. — Dennis Covington

Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of international bandits and assassins and squatters who have perpetrated the most massive, cynical fraud in human history. — Harold Covington

This is the most I have ever been in the sewers in one place. If someone had said to me a month ago, 'Hey, Jackal, guess where you'll be spending most of your time in New Covington? Ankle-deep in shit!' I would've ripped their lips off. — Julie Kagawa

The shape of your life depends upon whether you choose to be the sculptor or the clay. — Pamela M. Covington

Make it What you want it to Be! — Joey Covington

I chose to spend the day with you. And I'm choosing now to have dinner with you. — Lisa Brown Roberts

To say that I enjoyed writing ... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them. — Dennis Covington

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. — Dennis Covington

Neva ought to smile more. It breaks her anxiety into tiny pieces of joy you want to gather up and hand back to her in your palms, as if to say, See what you can make when you loose the reins. — Vicki Covington

But there are some things better left in the past. — Kim Karr

An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking ... the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself left me with repeated gasps of recognition about the human condition. I believe it will be a classic. — Dennis Covington

Explain to me, if you will, why alcoholism is a disease but can only be treated by attending little spiritual meetings in basements. — Vicki Covington

Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there. — Dennis Covington

As Dennis Covington has written, "Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend." 7-20 — Philip Yancey

With you, it's... I don't even know how to say it. It's like you're a work of art. Every time I'm with you, I see something new. Something beautiful. — Lisa Brown Roberts

Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others. — Stephanie S. Covington

Dinah and I were raised to believe money taints ordinary people, obstructs virtue, and makes a fool out of you. So, the inheritance was like a tiger somebody'd left on the doorstep of my house, and I had to figure out something to do with it. Having never seen a tiger up close, I perceived it as strange, frightful, and yet it pricked my curiosity enough to warrant a peek at its big body. But what to do with it? — Vicki Covington

His parents were tiny people and knew how to dance. Scotty danced, too, with a variety of women, I'm sure, though I never acknowledged this to myself until years later. He knew charm. — Vicki Covington

No, I'm not one of those guys. I'd never get anything done if I rescued everyone who needed it. But I do like to help people I care about. That's why I'm here with you right now. — Lisa Brown Roberts

No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of saying, 'Lord, regardless of what eternity holds for me, let me give something back to you. I know it doesn't even no scorecard. But let me make something of my life before I go.. and then, Lord, I'm at your mercy. — Mitch Albom

Everything about her always seemed to dance. Her lips as she spoke, her eyes as she laughed, even her hands as she made the cup of coffee I just ordered. — Holli True

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound. — Dennis Covington

There was more than getting justice for a wronged woman," Michael added. "I also met you. One of the most extraordinary experiences in my life." Nothing had been the same for him since.
"Not much remarkable about that," she demurred.
"You sought out Nemesis not for yourself, but for your friend. It was bloody amazing what you did during that job. When Nemesis needed your help again, you answered the call. Just tonight, you'd been afraid but willing to make the climb down the side of Covington Hall. Damned extraordinary." Thank God he'd been too distracted by climbing to think about the fact that she'd had her arms and legs wrapped around him, her body tight against his.
A corner of her mouth turned up. "Oh, when you put it like that, maybe I am rather special."
"Sodding right." A silence fell. But he wasn't willing to let it linger — Zoe Archer

All the men I know add that "hands that prepared it" line. They must know it's right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking. — Vicki Covington

I had a whole evening planned. I was hoping to sweep you off your feet. Like those guys in your stupid books. — Lisa Brown Roberts

I was that kind of tired you feel when you've spent a day in a hospital while a loved one undergoes surgery and comes through all right, the loved one, of course, being myself, and Christmas being the surgical procedure. — Vicki Covington

I'm so sorry about all you're going through, but I'm not sorry that it brought you to me. — Lisa Brown Roberts

Wasting talent is a sin. I'm not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. I'm not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. It's just not courteous to not use or wear something that somebody's given you as a well-meaning gift. It goes against Southern ways, not that God is Southern by any stretch of the imagination, but I do think He expects us to be an example for the rest of the country, as far as manners go. — Vicki Covington

It was deep afternoon when shadows begin to grow, light becomes gold, and you realize that this particular day has reached its destiny. Like old age, it's not yet over, but there's no denying the time of day. — Vicki Covington

I'll never let the voices in my head talk me out of the desires of my heart. — Stacey Covington-Lee

Announcements are best kept intact until stomachs are satisfied. News settles easier when blood sugar is stable. — Vicki Covington

Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming. — Stephanie S. Covington

There are moments when you stand on the brink of a new experience and understand that you have no choice about it. Either you walk into the experience or you turn away from it, but you know that no matter what you choose, you will have altered your life in a permanent way. Either way, there will be consequences. — Dennis Covington

I love you." Jack focused on her face, watching her pupils dilate in reaction to his words. "I love you and I'm staying here in Elliott. I'm quitting undercover work and maybe the police force altogether. We'll do whatever you want. Date me. Move in with me. Marry me. Make me beg. I don't care." He pressed a kiss against her mouth with a sigh. "Whatever you want. — Robin Covington

Understanding trauma and that we each respond to it differently will help us be supportive and nonjudgmental toward each other. — Stephanie S. Covington

Old age breeds the miracle of recall. You have no short-term memory atall; you can't remember what you did minutes ago, but you can recall with exquisite clarity what you did on your fifth birthday and how it all felt. — Vicki Covington

If there's one thing I learned in Alanon, it's that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it. — Vicki Covington

There is a reckoning coming, a reckoning between humanity and the Jewish people which will cause the very heavens to darken and the very devils in hell to hide their faces in shock and terror. You might say we owe them a Holocaust. We've been paying their bill for fifty years, and at some point we're finally going to get what we've paid for. — Harold Covington

The choice was whether to be sad and foolish or sad and reasonable. — Vicki Covington

I've never known a tranquil atheist. Don't they always look like they just sat on a tack? — Vicki Covington