Top 44 Coventry One Quotes
#1. Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!
Coventry Patmore
#2. People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It's really important.
Kirsty Coventry
#3. Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.
Coventry Patmore
#4. I drew my bride, beneath the moon,Across my threshold; happy hour!But, ah, the walk that afternoonWe saw the water-flags in flower!
Coventry Patmore
#5. One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.
Coventry Patmore
#6. The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case.
Martin Caidin
#7. The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
Coventry Patmore
#8. Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.
Coventry Patmore
#9. Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.
Coventry Patmore
#10. To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!
Coventry Patmore
#11. The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.
Coventry Patmore
#12. Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.
Coventry Patmore
#13. When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.
Jerry Dammers
#14. Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. Not even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg.
Martin Caidin
#15. It is much harder to retain your position at the top than to get to the top.
Kirsty Coventry
#16. Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!
Coventry Patmore
#18. If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?'
Coventry Patmore
#19. I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.
Kirsty Coventry
#20. The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon's heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.
Coventry Patmore
#21. In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.
Kirsty Coventry
#22. Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.
Coventry Patmore
#23. Everyone there including President Mugabe knows something needs to change because so many people are hurting.
Kirsty Coventry
#24. I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.
Brendan Coyle
#26. I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie.
Bobby Gould
#27. All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.
Coventry Patmore
#28. A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.
Coventry Patmore
#29. Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards ... the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill ... tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.
Joseph Goebbels
#30. The moods of love are like the wind,
And none knows whence or why they rise.
Coventry Patmore
#31. Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.
Coventry Patmore
#32. Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.
Coventry Patmore
#33. Everyone at home is so supportive. People recognise me, say how proud they are of me. It's awesome to hear, it's amazing to know I can touch so many people in a positive way.
Kirsty Coventry
#34. I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#35. Would anyone remember the story of Godiva if she lowered Coventry's taxes without taking her clothes off?
Daniel Donoghue
#37. The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.
Coventry Patmore
#39. It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.
Coventry Patmore
#40. What a Lover sees in the Beloved is the projected shadow of his own potential beauty in the eyes of God.
Coventry Patmore
#43. The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn.
Coventry Patmore
#44. To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.
Coventry Patmore
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