Hovering Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

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.

I don't dislike Lou because people ask me about him hovering over there, ... If George wants Lou, or anybody else to manage, that's certainly his prerogative. The fact that he's available, it's never really bothered me.

I have, I hope, a lot of compassion. I am certainly not an atheist. Maybe I am somewhere hovering between an agonistic and a believer.

Let's say I park in Lot 3B in the parking lot, ... I might see my car with three large bumble bees hovering over it. I got stung by a bee when I was a kid so it has an emotional charge, and it's easier to remember.

For some reason, the dark cloud won't go away. Kind of just hovering above us. Usually you get a breeze or something, it blows somewhere else. Needs to go away, I know that, got to go away because it's amazing to me.

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Golden State is hovering right about .500 and they're behind us in the Pacific, so it's very instrumental. We're in there, so we have to stay ahead of the teams that are behind us and catch some of the upper-echelon teams.

Relaxed, definitely. Massimo was created by several friends who have a genuine passion for design, but don't have the same enthusiasm for 'pushy' retail. We're always glad to help our customers, but we understand that hovering is just plain irritating.

Overall, our pitching has kept us in games, and that's why we're kind of hovering at that .500 mark. We want to get over that hump. Our starting pitching did a good job and we ran the bases really well. ... We're not only more aggressive, but we're more confident.

Our gasoline prices are hovering at $3 a gallon, and that causes a serious problem for a lot of our commerce and a lot of our families.

Kara's been kind of hovering between varsity and JV all four years. She was disappointed that she fell on beam, but I told her we didn't need her on beam. We needed her on bars.

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?

Trends show a sharp surge on auto spending in July but little strength elsewhere, ... Most disturbing is the ongoing sluggishness for services. Demand there is hovering around (annual) gains of 2 percent. That won't create many jobs.

The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.

We've been hovering pretty much around .500 all season. There's no excuse for us that when these five games are over we shouldn't be two or three games above .500. Having said that, I think we all know the importance of this five-game stretch before we hit the road before the break is over with. It's a great opportunity for us.

We've been hovering right around 70-75 teams the past few years.

Well I think some of the more defensive issues would probably perform in line with the market. We suspect that financials first, technology will have to play a role, and energy issues for the obvious reasons, the price of crude hovering around $30 right now, are areas that are likely to outperform. But I think to be successful we have to have participation across the board. That goes back to breadth indicators being real laggard of the internal equation for many, many months. So they not necessarily lag the market, but perform in line across the board, is going to be an essential element.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

We were hovering near the bottom and it was nice to rebound and get some big ones. We needed to get more pucks to the net instead of making that one extra pass. Establish a shot first and that will open things up.

We're stalled. When you see oil prices back up to their high, you've seen gold hovering around $600 US, people are making some really good money and I think there's a lot of people who are just taking the opportunity to crystallize some gains which is keeping the market at bay a little bit right now.

I've notified his friends that this will be a good time, over the next couple months, for them to be around and to play games with him, ... It'll be good for him, instead of just having his parents hovering over him all the time.

We see inflation hovering at around these levels throughout the first half of this year. If oil prices remain well-behaved, we should see slightly below-target inflation in the second half.

We've got Tropical Storm Arlene hovering off the coast of Cuba. It could affect Georgia by Saturday night (depending on its path) and last for several days.

We are still hovering around $2, which is wonderful.

That's what's so hard for me to swallow as a coach. We were so close, but we didn't take our game to the next step to pull out the wins. We're just kind of hovering right now, and we're not doing what it takes to get to the next step.

They've been hovering right around the same revenue figure for several quarters now.

The play is funny. And people love baseball. But there's a moral lesson. 'Rounding Third' is particularly suitable for that part of the audience made up of young parents. We are a generation of helicopter parents, constantly hovering over our kids, fussing with them.

We are starting with stocks fully valued and short- and long-term interest rates still hovering near four-decade lows. Large bull-market moves are generally accompanied by, or preceded by, declining rates, and we don't have that scenario today.

The bear was still hovering over the top of her body.

The new home sales rate has remained robust for a good many months already. Certainly adding to the level of sales in the past six-to-12 months has been a very favorable level of mortgage rates, which are basically hovering around 7 percent.

The key this morning is the 10-year note hovering around a yield of 5%. This news trumps any economic or earnings data. It's a rate-driven market, even with oil competing for headlines. Any weakness we may see will be due to these bond yields.

The key to parenting is to keep track of what the children are doing, but not to the point of hovering over them.

Claims continue hovering slightly above the 300,000 mark, implying strong, steady labor market conditions.

Investors should be out there, picking up some stocks that are trading near their lows or have bounced off their lows and I think that have good futures. And among them: AT&T ( T : Research , Estimates ) -- their wireless division came in on target, 25, 30 percent growth, and I think that's what is going to carry them. Stock is hovering around their lows here. I think it's a 'great buy.' And I think in the next market rally, that the stock will have a nice bounce.

He's the sort of teacher that gives you the freedom to express yourself without hovering over you.

Hovering above us is a certain degree of sadness. There's been another murder at the hands of officers of the state. And what do we want? We want the truth to be told. We want justice served, and the laws to be adhered to.

The equity market has quite a considerable number of dark clouds hovering over it.

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.

And hovering over all of this is the threat of terror. There are people out there who hate us. They are plotting 24/7. These guys are patient and spend a large amount of time between attacks planning.

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.

The trigger fingers hovering over all of the instability-sensitive commodity 'buy' buttons (gold, oil, etc.) are as jittery as ever.

. . . a businessman's candidate, hovering around the status quo like a sick kitten around a hot brick.

It's the snowball effect; they can't work out so they can't lose the weight. Nor do they have a conditioning coach hovering over them. It puts them on a path to destruction.

It's like a retreat. They don't have family telling them what to do, there's no hovering and they talk about whatever they want to talk about.

It was a natural breather. But with (benchmark indexes) hovering in positive areas throughout the day, the market conditions remain solid.

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.

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.

However, one new theory says that dark matter may be ordinary matter in a parallel universe. If a galaxy is hovering above in another dimension, we would not be able to see it. It would be invisible, yet we would feel its gravity. Hence, it might explain dark matter.

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.

empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

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.

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.

I believe that there is an ideal hovering over the earth, an ideal of that Paradise which is not the mere outcome of imagination, but the ultimate reality towards which all things are moving. I believe that this vision of Paradise is to be seen in th

It means you got your glow on." He smiled, hovering right alongside me. "It means you're on your way.

O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, / Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.