Hovey Quotes & Sayings

Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music. — Kristin Cashore

EXPRESSIONS Look without! Behold the beauty of the day, The shout of color to glad color, rocks and trees, and sun and seas, and wind and sky: All these are God's expression, art work of His hand, which men must love ere they can understand. — Richard Hovey

Nor love they least
Who strike with right good will
To vanquish ill
And fight God's battle upward from the beast. — Richard Hovey

Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head. — Richard Hovey

Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense. — Ian McEwan

Ye who made war that your ships Should lay to at the beck of no nation, Make war now on Murder, that slips The leash of her hounds of damnation; Ye who remembered the Alamo, Remember the Maine! — Richard Hovey

After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready to abandon it at the slightest provocation. should this certainty be lacking, we must tell ourselves that nothing is accomplished in warfare without daring; that the nature of war certainly does not let us see at all times where we are going; that what is probable will always be probable though at the moment it may not seem so; and finally, that we cannot be readily ruined by a single error, if we have made reasonable preparations. — Carl Von Clausewitz

I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay. — Richard Hovey

I have need of the sky,
I have business with the grass;
I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheeling
Lone and high,
And the slow clouds go by.
I will get me away to the waters that glass
The clouds as they pass.
I will get me away to the woods. — Richard Hovey

Abstain not! Life and love like night and day
offer themselves to us on their own terms,
not ours. Accept their bounty while ye may,
before we accept by the worms, — Richard Hovey

Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray? — Richard Hovey

Casey Lomonaco, KPA CTP, May/June 2010 — Adrienne Hovey

The great white cold walks abroad! — Richard Hovey

How loving is the Lord God and how strong withal! — Richard Hovey

I am sick of four walls and a ceiling
I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass. — Richard Hovey

The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend / As a man and a woman that plight / Their troth in the warm spring night. — Richard Hovey

For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear. — Richard Hovey

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace. — Oscar Wilde

In that moment there was no pretense between them, no lingering vestige of reserve or attempt to escape, no denial. It was final and complete. — Anne Perry

East, to the dawn, or west or south or north! Loose rein upon the neck of-and forth! — Richard Hovey

I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great. — Richard Hovey

Spring in the world! And all things are made new! — Richard Hovey

Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives. — Richard Hovey

A blind man's world is bounded by the limits of his touch; an ignorant man's world by the limits of his knowledge: a great man's world by the limits of his vision. — E. Paul Hovey

There is no sorrow like a love denied. Nor any joy like love that has its will. — Richard Hovey

Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet? — Mark Knopfler

You don't have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory. — Janet Jackson

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold. — Richard Hovey

I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women. But I've never played the Bionic Woman. In 'Sarah Connor' and 'Lost,' I am not the orchestrator of what happens. I've played quite peripheral people. — Sonya Walger

[People] do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself but because it contradicts them. — E. Paul Hovey

Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,Who gives and asks no payment. — Richard Hovey