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I do not mean for one second to suggest that 'White Doves at Morning' was written with a movie deal in mind. Certainly not. -- Clive Sinclair
Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare. -- Charles Krauthammer
I tried to make a 'When Doves Cry' in a rap version. I used a lot of instruments and I broke it down like I thought Prince would do, and that's the song I sent to Big Boi. -- Chuck Inglish
Wolves and Doves mate for life. I hope in the next life I am one of the two. -- Amanda Mosher
I kind of think that he [Prince] was pleased because he allowed [When Doves Cry] to be done. -- Quindon Tarver
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. -- Nikita Khrushchev
My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic. -- Chiang Kai-shek
But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country. -- Amos Oz
Argentina and Burma. I have been to most of the countries in the world, but not those two. I want to shoot doves in Argentina. Burma, of course, because no one has really been there. -- Jeremy Clarkson
I like doves. They look so beautiful, like a woman. For me they represent peace and love and purity. And sometimes they're seen as the messengers of God, so they're important to me because I'm a Christian. -- John Woo
The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it. -- Lance Burton
Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing. -- Kate Bernheimer
Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while. -- James Fenton
No doves come from ravens' eggs -- Hannah Kent
The more bombers the less room for doves of peace. -- Nikita Khrushchev
As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves. -- Ovid
Great ideas come into the world as gently as doves. -- Albert Camus
I say love, and the world populates itself with doves. -- Pablo Neruda
His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves. -- Marisha Pessl
His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves. -- Marisha Pessl
You are sheep among wolves; be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves. -- Anonymous
Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls. -- George Aiken
Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots. -- Tommy Douglas
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.] -- Juvenal
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on, And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. -- William Shakespeare
The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets Inhaled the appointed odor, while the doves Rose up like phantoms from chronologies." -- Wallace Stevens
Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I did die -- Nikolai Gogol
have a mind so quiet, that you can hear doves whispering as they rest their wings in the rafters your silent sanctuary -- Kate Mullane Robertson
And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
One day, I want to get rich enough so that every time I walk into a room I can release a dozen doves. -- Daniel Tosh
The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as doves" but "wise as serpents. -- Lin Yutang
We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause In a universe of inconstancy. -- Wallace Stevens
Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs. -- Anton Chekhov
Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves. -- Pablo Neruda
Love's heralds should be thoughts, Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams Driving back shadows over low'ring hills. Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love, And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings. -- William Shakespeare
People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves. -- Rumi
But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each other, fell on her ear, her eyes sought the sky, and she heard a voice saying, "Majella! -- Helen Hunt Jackson
Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves. -- Alexander Pope
See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses. -- Alan Watts
The new mythology of love was that it bent to the fashion of the day, obligated to take the shape of doves, lilies, jewels. This is a lie. Love is sometimes as passionate as war. -- Brenna Yovanoff

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