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Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission. -- Ambrose Bierce
I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing it's target. -- Kenneth Williams
Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below. -- John Donne
As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans. -- Terence McKenna
A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry. -- Danzy Senna
I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds. -- Ralph Richardson
Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro. -- Marcus Aurelius
No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving. -- Lord Byron
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems. -- Jonathan Zittrain
It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. -- Isaac Barrow
It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike for opposition and both had a roving eye for other people's property. -- John Steinbeck
When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine! -- John Gay
And what exactly is nature walking? It's any and every kind of walking you can do in the natural world. The activity encompasses strolling, striding, sauntering, stepping, treading, tramping, traipsing, traversing, rambling, roving, roaming, racewalking, hiking, meandering, wandering, wending, pacing, peregrinating, perambulating ... in natural surroundings. -- Charlie Cook
But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia. -- Edward Gibbon
The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see; he remembers what does not seem wholly possible. Inattentive learner in the schoolroom of life, he keeps some faculty free to veer and wander. His is the roving eye. -- Elizabeth Bowen
BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank. -- Kay Ryan
He was drunk upon the average once a day, and penitent upon an equally fair calculation once a month; and when he was penitent, he was invariably in the very last stage of maudlin intoxication. He was a ragged, roving, roaring kind of fellow, with a burly form, a sharp wit, and a ready head, and could turn his hand to anything when he chose to do it. -- Charles Dickens
A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws. -- John Cornyn
Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs...shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'? -- Bill Hicks
You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art. -- Toni Morrison
It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers. -- Ellen Glasgow
Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit. -- Maximillian Degenerez
I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up. -- Elinor Lipman

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