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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened. -- Ziggy Marley
I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again. -- Audie Murphy
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. -- Garrison Keillor
Hovering over me was the Chihuly chandelier. Chihulys are the pigeons of Seattle. They're everywhere and even if they don't get in your way, you can't help but build up a kind of antipathy toward them. -- Maria Semple
What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person. -- Katherine Moennig
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The sun's sweet ray is hovering discovered. -- Heinrich Heine
The American empire is hovering between life and death. -- Mohsen Rezaee
O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings. -- John Milton
A rune, hovering like an angel: a shape like two wings joined by a single bar. -- Cassandra Clare
I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable. -- Kathy Najimy
Steampunk has been hovering around for a long while, and it's never really caught on in a big way. -- Chris Wooding
I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you. -- Alice Walker
But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly. -- Allen Tate
With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's sweet ray is hovering found. -- Heinrich Heine
We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood. -- U.G. Krishnamurti
Droplets, droplets: we are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path. -- Lauren Oliver
Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning. -- Muriel Spark
The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself. -- Steven Johnson
Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
The Home Office culture was one of being just above the problem, of hovering just out of reach of knowing what was going on on the ground, whether it was crime or immigration. -- David Blunkett
I'm very tall, so I like a guy who's bigger than me - it makes me feel feminine and safe. I don't like to be hovering over a guy or feel like a linebacker. -- Adrianne Palicki
Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush! -- Robert Genn
I believe that we are still hovering around the realm of Asians playing all types of Asians. I do not see that changing any time soon just because there is a limited pool of Asian actors. -- Steven Yeun
A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home. -- Charles Krauthammer
I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me. -- Selma Blair
Once while vacationing at my grandparent's house in Rajasthan, we were sleeping on the roof and I spotted an object hovering around in the sky - kind of a UFO. It totally spooked me out. I couldn't sleep for days after that. -- Nimrat Kaur
A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers. -- Nancy Gibbs
I don't have a creepy uncle, but I certainly have many, many uncles. My mom has twelve brothers and sisters, and my dad has two sisters and three brothers. Their maturity level is still hovering around fifteen when they all get together, but they're not necessarily creepy. -- Martha MacIsaac
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves. -- William Temple
They say that when you're about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once loved dying, hovering between this life and the next, it's twice as painful, because you're reliving two lives that traveled one road together. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
The reactionary percentage of the electorate in these United States has been relatively constant since McCarthy's day; I'd estimate it as hovering around 30 percent. A minority, but one never all that enamored of the niceties of democracy - they see themselves as fighting for the survival of civilization, after all. -- Rick Perlstein
A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around it black leaves and drenched grass and fallen branches, and on it, slight as an image in an eye, sky, clouds, trees, our hovering faces and our cold hands. -- Marilynne Robinson
When I did the video for 'Holding Out For A Hero,' we filmed that on top of the Grand Canyon, and that was quite frightening. I was close to the edge, and there was a helicopter hovering about, creating a lot of wind, and I was nervous I was going to fall off. -- Bonnie Tyler
We have no regulation of drones in the United States in their commercial use. You can see drones some day hovering over the homes of Hollywood luminaries, violating privacy. This question has to be addressed. And we need rules of operation on the border, by police, by commercial use, and also by military and intelligence use. -- Dianne Feinstein
I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we? -- Amy Waldman
I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me. -- Fernando Pessoa
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself. -- Thomas Carlyle
Rising Sun jostles hard to evaporate doom filled clouds;hovering ancient land. -- Aniruddha Sastikar
Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation. -- Liane Moriarty
empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw. -- Ellen Hopkins
That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads. -- Junot Diaz
It means you got your glow on." He smiled, hovering right alongside me. "It means you're on your way. -- Alyson Noel
Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed. -- Jonny Steinberg
I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them. -- Angela Carter
The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried. -- Kelley Armstrong
I wasn't sure if the word boys should mean dim or incomprehensible. I was hovering between the two, with a healthy dose of testosterone-poisoned. -- Lilith Saintcrow
On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light. -- Edward Conlon
Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it. -- Marci Shimoff
She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens. -- Thornton Wilder
Ghosts are not what I remember of my childhood; but somehow they infuse memories of myself as a child, the little girl in a storybook, with ghosts hovering around her. -- Yolanda A. Reid
You should not be hovering in the background, inflating the drama. Simply envelop him in love and affection and let him know that you will support his efforts, whatever they are. -- Amy Dickinson
After sex, after coffee, after everything there is to be said -- The hovering and beautiful alphabet as we form our first words after making love. And somehow I'm still alive. -- Carole Maso
Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them ... is a fairy cupid tangled in a scarf of poetry. -- James Whitcomb Riley
He had no idea that he never went out of the house without her blessing going with him too, hovering, like a little echo of finished love, round that once dear head -- Elizabeth Von Arnim
I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me. -- William Shatner
Thankyou,"Catherine said, the smile still hovering on her lips. "That is kind of you my lord. But i will never dance with you." Which, ofcourse, made it the goal of leo's life. -- Lisa Kleypas
So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal' and I had been meaning to knock it down to negative 1000. -- Mike Birbiglia
The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me. -- Kim Harrison
The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Brenna jumped to her feet the second Father Sinclair entered the chamber. "I'm so happy to see you," she cried out. "Be happy sitting down," Jamie ordered, hovering over her patient like a mother hen. -- Julie Garwood

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