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Quotes About Hovering

Mercy is not frozen in time, but flits about frantically, unsure where to land.
~ Ada Limón
Not so much living, but a hovering without sense.
~ Ada Limón
We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
hovering in the air like a drunken moth.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
My mom was extremely supportive of me, but it could err on the side of... I mean, there's supportive, and then there's just full-on over-hovering.
~ Megan Mullally
Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow, An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering, High in the purer, happier air.
~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
It's nice to have a station pet. Wish it wasn't trapped in a hovering prison in the men's bathroom, but listen: no pet is perfect. It becomes perfect when you learn to accept it for what it is.
~ Cecil Baldwin
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
In the stories about life and death, the soul often floats above the goodbye moment, hovering over police cars at highway accidents, or clinging like a spider to hospital room ceilings. These are people who receive a second chance, who somehow, for some reason, resume their place in the world. Eddie, it appeared, was not getting a second chance.
~ Albom, Mitch
I'm not hovering. I just thought you might be interested in knowing that Nell's boss is here. Max stopped typing. Bishop? Yep. What's he doing here? Apparently just finished up another investigation in Chicago.So what's he doing here? Ethan grinned. I'm trying to make out whether you consider him a rival or just somebody who's going to spirit Nell back to Virginia.
~ Kay Hooper
Glutton shoved her lump of a husband off her and scrambled to her feet. Next she shut off the ice-cream tap, which had still been splurging away. CLICK! "It's Ned," announced Ned, still hovering outside their van on his slocket. "Remember me?
~ David Walliams
Jack zoomed into the clearing at vampire speed. His eyes widened at the sight of Phineas and Brynley hovering twelve feet in the air. "I heard a gunshot. Are you all right?" "Dagnabbit! Another alien!" Digger bellowed. "Where?" Jack glanced behind him, then gasped when Digger shifted back into a bear and charged. He levitated, too. "Merda! Now I see why you're floating.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above.
~ Khaled Hosseini
His health grew worse, probably exacerbated by the myriad of hovering doctors eager to give their famous patient all the latest treatments: strychnine injections, ammonia, ether, and electric pulses. On
~ Adam Hochschild
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion and self-destruction.
~ Robert Higgs
The Will Smith that you see in movies is exactly the same as Will Smith in real life. Except for when he plays a superhero, because the real Will Smith can't fly. He can only hover.
~ Kurt Fuller
A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath of wind. He will, and does, hover in the still, soft atmosphere of early autumn, when the gossamer falls in showers, coming straight down as if it were raining silk.
~ Richard Jefferies
he caught sight of the osprey, wheeling overhead, flying in wide circles. He hovered in the air, borne by the breeze. He made it look so easy—-just floating in the air, lazily flying over the beach and sea. But Zeb knew the bird was hunting, fighting to stay alive, riding through all the dangers hidden by the beautiful day.
~ Luanne Rice
Undeserving as we are, our heavenly Father hovers over us, rejoicing, caring for us, loving us with an everlasting love. — Sandi Banks —
~ Gary Chapman
I dusted the wedding-cake trim with a cloth on the end of a broom, staggering, and looking up and pretending that the ceiling was the floor and I was sweeping, hovering busily in space looking down at my broom, weightless and flying until the room swung dizzily and I was again on the floor looking up.
~ Shirley Jackson
O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
~ John Milton
For a hundred years the Ottoman Empire, called the "Sick Man" of Europe, had been considered moribund by the hovering European powers who were waiting to fall upon the carcass.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Don't keep on hovering round me, Spiddle! I can't abide hoverers!
~ Georgette Heyer
In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.
~ Adam Grant