Covers Quotes
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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.
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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
The only trouble with this book is that its covers are too close together.
Christopher Charles Herbert Lehmann-Haupt— 1992 On Florence King With Charity Toward None (1992). In the NewYork Times, 9 Apr.
For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.
Kenneth Patchen— 1939 FirstWill andTestament,'The Character of Love Seen as a Search for the Lost'.
If the public dislikes one of my Post covers, I can't help disliking it myself.
Norman Rockwell— Quoted in the NewYorkTimes, 28 Sep1986.
Album covers are like any other vehicle, they are a means of illustrating a story.
Peter Blake— Ian Herbert North, "We hope you will enjoy the show", The Independent, 2005-02-11
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))
The aim of Satanic power is to cut off communication with God. To accomplish this aim he deludes the soul with a sense of defeat, covers him with a thick cloud of darkness, depresses and oppresses the spirit, which in turn hinders prayer and leads to unbelief – thus destroying all power.
james o. fraser— 20 March 1916 Source: Geraldine Taylor. Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser. Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., 1998, 157.
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.
mary abigail dodge— Country Living and Country Thinking, Preface, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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
He found oddly little regret in his heart for his own lost life. He'd seen more of the world than most men ever did, and he'd had his chances, though the gods knew he'd made little enough of them. Marshaling his thoughts, as he sheltered under his covers, he realized with some wonder that his greatest dismay was for the work he'd be forced to leave undone.
lois mcmaster bujold— p. 233 (Cryoburn (2010))
[The hardest thing about '90 Millas' was the concept of] combining the old and the new without losing the authenticity. The simple solution, of course, would have been to record covers. [But] emotionally it wouldn't have been the same We left Cuba as children: Gloria was 1, I was 14. So, there ia a part that does exist in nostalgia, but a the same [time] there is another part that is contemporary music that we've made all over the world.
gloria estefan— Emilio Estefan, Reuters (July 23, 2007)
Hate and Fear are not wanted here, Nor Toys nor Country Lovers, Everything they took from my new poem book But the flyleaf and the covers.
robert graves— "A First Review"
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night (1936).
But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.
— "The Character of Love Seen as a Search for the Lost"
Tiers of mountains Cold wind feet Not need fan Ice cold through Moon shines bright Mist covers everything Sit all alone One old man
— 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
Contrary to western myth, the elevated central plateau which covers half of Ethiopia 's surface area that supports the large majority population is quite possibly the most extensive contiguous area of fertile land in the eastern side of Africa .
— Philip Briggs, in Ethiopa (2006), p. xi
For ages the world has been waiting and watching; millions, with broken hearts, have hovered around the yawning abyss; but no echo has come back from the engulfing gloom silence, oblivion, covers all. If indeed they survive; if they went away whole and victorious, they give us no signals. We wait for years, but no messages come from the far-away shore to which they have gone.
— Randolph Sinks Foster, p. 291. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
This epic of evolution covers far more than the story of the evolution of biological life. It is the evolving tale of the creativity, complexity and emergence of new and novel phenomena that comprises all that is today
— Epic of Evolution Information [5]
Night's black mantle covers all alike.
guillaume de salluste du bartas— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, First Week, First Day, line 562.
The term hermeneutics covers both the first order art and the second order theory of understanding and interpretation of linguistic and non-linguistic expressions.
— Ramberg, Bjørn and Gjesdal, Kristin, " Hermeneutics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2013 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
A civil habit Oft covers a good man.
— Beaumont and Fletcher, Beggar's Bush, Act II, scene 3, line 210.
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).
O man! whosoever thou art, and whensoever thou comest, for come I know thou wilt, I am Cyrus, founder of the Persian empire. Envy me not the little earth that covers my body.
— Plutarch, Life of Alexander, Epitaph of Cyrus; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 230.
Here she lies a pretty bud, Lately made of flesh and blood; Who, as soone fell fast asleep, As her little eyes did peep. Give her strewings, but not stir The earth that lightly covers her.
Robert Herrick— Robert Herrick, Upon a Child that Dyed; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 231.
O what a monument of glorious worth, When in a new edition he comes forth, Without erratas, may we think he'll be In leaves and covers of eternity!
— Benjamin Woodbridge, Lines on John Cotton (1652); reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 235.
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole things. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
johnny cash— "The Wise Words of Johnny Cash" (September 11, 2013)
