Covers Quotes
|
O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.
|
More Covers Quotes
Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.
hugh walpole— Rogue Herries (1930), first lines.
Pardon my long preamble. It's like a chorus girl's tightsit touches everything and covers nothing.
— During an after-dinner speech. Attributed.
We meet fellow humans throughout our travels, Become close — friends, dates, lovers. Always we are distanced again from death, geography, or meeting others,Only dial tone on the phone, cold and empty beneath the covers.
patri friedman— Parting is such sweet sorrow
If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety...
warren buffett— 1997 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, quoted in Andrew Kilpatrick, Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett (Vol. 2), p. 1615
Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all.
Jerry Adler— 1993 On the opening of the Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge, Massachusetts. In Newsweek,12 Apr.
Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
Miguel de Cervantes— Ch. 68. (Part II (1615))
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
edwin hubbell chapin— P. 20. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers)
Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.
tommy douglas— Speech, Saskatchewan Legislature, February 17, 1954
Night's black mantle covers all alike.
guillaume de salluste du bartas— First Week, First Day. Compare: "Come civil night,… with thy black mantle", William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 2.
This Bible, then, has a mission, grander than any mere creation of God; for in this volume are infinite wisdom, and infinite love. Between its covers are the mind and heart of God; and they are for man's good, for his salvation, his guidance, his spiritual nourishment. If now I neglect my Bible, I do my soul a wrong; for the fact of this Divine message is evidence that I need it.
abbott eliot kittredge— P. 32. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Even if I was really prolific — which I'm not — I think I'd always put at least a couple of covers on my record. I think it's a sort of healthy thing to do. It shows that you're not totally self-obsessed.
nick lowe— "Nick Lowe" interview with Noel Murray at the A.V. Club (27 June 2007)
But genius is an enormous littleness, a tricklingOf heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.
Kenneth Patchen— "The Character of Love Seen as a Search for the Lost"
The essence of spirituality does not consist in a specialised or narrow interest in some imagined part of life, but in a certain enlightened attitude to all the various situations which obtain in life. It covers and includes the whole of life. All the material things of this world can be made subservient to the divine game, and when they are thus subordained they become auxiliary to the self-affirmation of the spirit.
meher baba— Ch. 15 : The Life of the Spirit
Tiers of mountains Cold wind feet Not need fan Ice cold through Moon shines bright Mist covers everything Sit all alone One old man
han shan— Cold Mountain Transcendental Poetry by the t'ang zen poet han-shan (2005, 2011), tr. Wandering Poet, ISBN 978-0-6151-6006-1 ISBN 0615160069 LOC Number 2007937840
Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
Michel de Montaigne— Book II, ch. 37
There are problems in all health-care systems, but at least [Europeans] have a health-care system that covers everyone, and it's not my position or my right or my responsibility to point out the flaws in [your] health-care system that is your job it is your job to fix those problems.
Michael Moore— Casa del Cinema press conference, Rome, Italy, (August 2007)
Here we are, naked lovers, beautiful to each other and that's enough. The leaves of our eyelids our only covers, we're lying amidst deep night.
wisława szymborska— Openess
There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.
joseph addison— p. 484. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Mechanical Engineering is that branch of engineering which broadly speaking covers the fields of heat, power, design of machinery, industrial management, and manufacturing problems.
— University of Michigan, ?Charles Willcox (1927) General Register. p. 199
The range of a fine conscience covers more good and evil than the range of conscience which may be called, roughly, not fine; a conscience, less troubled by the nice discrimination of shades of conduct. A fine conscience is more concerned with essentials; its triumphs are more perfect, if less profitable, in a worldly sense.
— Joseph Conrad in Henry James — An Appreciation (1905).
Maya has another face in the Bhagavata, however. This role of maya is especially discernible under the name Yogmaya, which occurs in the context of Krishna ’s lila . Yogmaya covers the pure liberated souls in the lila and her power of illusion, such that they are unaware of Krishna’s real nature and thus relate to him not as God but rather as their friend, lover or child, and so on.
— In Bhagavata, quoted in “Krishna: A Sourcebook”, p.116
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.
— Gail Hamilton, Country Living and Country Thinking, Preface.
The covers of this book are too far apart.
ambrose bierce— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.
charles henry fowler— p. 537. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.
— Epitaph of Cyrus, as quoted in Life of Alexander, in Plutarch : The Age of Alexander, translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert (1973), p.326.
One who reveals your faults to you like a mirror is your true friend, and one who flatters you and covers up your faults is your enemy.
— Majlisi, Bih?rul Anw?r, vol.78, p.128
This act covers every D&E [dilation and evacuation] that I did. Everything that I do to cause an abortion is an overt act. . . The fetuses are alive at the time of delivery. [There is a heartbeat] very frequently.
— Leroy Carhart, testifying under oath that language in the partial-birth abortion ban act bans more than just partial-birth abortion, Carhart v. Ashcroft (April 1, 2004).
