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• How can you just leave me standing? Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold) Maybe I'm just too demanding, Maybe I'm just like my father too bold.Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied) Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

  Prince

  Mother, Father, Sound

  Song: When Doves Cry

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• Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing,
  Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.

  William Cowper

  Time, Wings, Sound

  William Cowper (1824). “Poems of William Cowper, Esq”, p.236

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• The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material to present each of his protagonists in a convincing, respectful, but unsparing way. Even more valuable, he has used the interactions and tensions between Paul Nitze and George Kennan to bring much of American 20th century foreign policy to life, with human richness ever present but with the big issues clear in all their complexity.

  James Fallows

  Book, Ideas, Issues

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• What can the dove of Jesus give
  You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live,
  The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.

  Robert Lowell

  Wisdom, Jesus, Giving

  Robert Lowell (1979). “Robert Lowell: A Tribute”

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• There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.

  Andrew Jackson

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mom

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• The red rose whispers of passion,
  And the white rose breathes of love;
  O, the red rose is a falcon,
  And the white rose is a dove.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Flower, Passion, White

  John Boyle O'Reilly, Liam Barry (1994). “Selected poems, speeches, dedications and letters of John Boyle O'Reilly, 1844-1890”

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• To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky.

  Pablo Neruda

  Night, Clouds, Rocks

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.805, Macmillan

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• 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

  Change, Girl, Violet

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.285, Vintage

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• Once I was in Texas, where they had this thing called Ralph the Swimming Pig. You went into a theater and you were looking through a great big window at people dressed as mermaids swimming around with oxygen tanks. One of the mermaids had a bottle of milk, and a small Ralph the Swimming Pig dove in and swam over. Naturally, afterward, I said in the cafeteria, "What happens to the Ralphs when they get bigger? Would you serve Ralphs who have retired?" "Oh no! We would never do such a thing."

  Margaret Atwood

  Swimming, Pigs, Texas

  "Margaret Atwood Remixes Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a Prison Drama". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September, 2016.

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• To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Truth, Ravens, Ark

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.342

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• I read the different translations of the Bible they had and really just dove into it, almost so I could prove it all right.

  Christian Hosoi

  Different, Prove It, Translations

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• When Jesus was baptized by John, the heavens opened and the Dove descended upon Him. Immediately thereafter, that same Dove drove Him into the wilderness to fast for 40 days and to contend with the territorial strongman over the earth, satan himself. For 40 days, Jesus warred through prayer and fasting to reverse the curse of Adam and Eve and to overcome the devil and release atomic power into the earth. The results recorded in Luke show that history changed forever through the strength and victory the Lord gained by His obedience. Divine power was now His!

  Lou Engle

  Jesus, Prayer, Forever

  Lou Engle (1998). “Digging the Wells of Revival”, p.155, Destiny Image Publishers

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• You don't own art. What does that mean? We are trustees of art. Art is in transit with us. That is why an auction is a wonderful thing. You clap your hands and the objects fly away like doves and find other places where they will be protected, loved. That's what I believe.

  Pierre Berge

  Art, Believe, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don't blow your tomorrows, don't throw away your love. You've got to be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove.

  Gerry Rafferty

  Wise, Love You, Blow

  Song: As Wise As A Serpent

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• When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Ostriches, San Francisco, World

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (2018). “Legitimacy and Force: State Papers and Current Perspectives: Volume 1: Political and Moral Dimensions”, p.594, Routledge

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• The question before the human race is, Whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether Priests and Kings shall rule it by fictitious Miracles? Or, in other words, whether authority is originally in the People? Or whether it has descended for 1800 Years in a succession of Popes and Bishops, or brought down from Heaven by the Holy Ghost in the form of a Dove, in a Phial of holy Oil?

  John Adams

  Kings, Law, Oil

  John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1971). “The Adams-Jefferson letters: the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”, Touchstone

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• In all religions, the quickening spirit has been symbolically represented as a bird. At the baptism, when Jesus body was in the water, the Spirit of Christ descended into it as a dove.

  Max Heindel

  Jesus, Water, Bird

  Max Heindel (1921). “Mysteries of the Great Operas”

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• Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul, to taste, without relish, the contentment of doing God's will. Thus after the winter the spring will come, with its flowers, and you will hear the voice of the turtle-dove in this land.

  Paul of the Cross

  Spring, Flower, Exercise

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• His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. "I could've made you happy, dove." "You did," I whispered

  Ann Aguirre

  Butterfly, Wings, Lashes

  Ann Aguirre (2013). “Horde”, p.228, Macmillan

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• My name, Paloma, means 'dove' in Spanish. It stands as a symbol of peace and purity.

  Paloma Picasso

  Mean, Names, Purity

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• The dove is my emblem.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Technology, Emblems

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• There are still preserved among Christians traces of that Holy Spirit that appeared in the form of a dove. They expel evil spirits, perform many cures, and foresee certain events.

  Tertullian

  Christian, Evil, Events

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• When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach that wasn't an ache but something different.

  Nicole Krauss

  Ocean, Feelings, Different

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.137, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Sound, Lions, Innocent

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• I got it, I dove on the floor, he dove on my head and I hit my teeth on the ground. It was just one of my police reactions to get that criminal off me.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nba, Police

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