Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.
Virgil
Related No other evil we know is faster than Rumor, thriving on speed and becoming stronger by running. Smal... VIRGIL There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not f... CHARLES MONTESQUIEU There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not f... CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report
of evil things than which nothing... VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) A woman is like your shadow - follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows CHAMFORT Alis volat Propriis
[She flies with her own wings] MOTTO She will, and she will not - she grants, denies,-Consents, retracts, advances, and then flies GEORGE GRANVILLE At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cann... KHALED HOSSEINI She walks with her head held high. GABRIEL ORTIZ In the teahouses one could hear the most absurd stories, such as how a in a certain place a huge spi... LAO SHE During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the... LAO SHE And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow ... GASTON LEROUX She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender ... SHERWOOD ANDERSON She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. JOHN GREEN It is just my imagination that flies, While she is wrapped up in her bedsheets like a nest... KIERA WOODHULL She said she collects pieces of sky, cuts holes out of it with silver scissors, bits of heaven she c... LISA ZARAN Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way, / And that she increased her whoredoms... BIBLE She rides the sandworm of space! She guides through all storms Into the land of gentle win... FRANK HERBERT She is clothed in strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future. ANONYMOUS Yet losing him seemed unbearable. He was the one she loved, the one she would always love, and as he... NICHOLAS SPARKS She was excited with her performance as this was really the first time she pushed herself this seaso... BRIAN CORCORAN Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tr... JHUMPA LAHIRI I thought she had caught it and then I looked back at her and saw she was going to throw it to first... MALLORY RUHL The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She wa... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong... E.E. CUMMINGS Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong... E. E. CUMMINGS There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the... HOMER Fame hides her head among the clouds. VIRGIL Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed... JANE AUSTEN She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the star... ROBERT M. DRAKE She had a couple jams early, but they didn't hit her hard. In the first inning, she gave up two walk... RALPH REMUS As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the ... GEENA DAVIS Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't... MEGAN FOX She told me that she would like to meet with her family as soon as possible. She wants us to make ef... SHINZO ABE When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outs... AMY TAN Woman -- for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her... LUIGI PIRANDELLO I was struck by Suu Kyi's warmth and generosity. No matter how petite she looks, she exudes amaz... MICHELLE YEOH As with a little girl playing with her nurse, the toy which she
eagerly sought she soon tires of an... UNKNOWN The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small
town.
[Lat., Fama volat parvam s... VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL) There were other things,too, to ask him. Always she tries to be less forward. Always she tried to fi... PAULLINA SIMONS She had been born knowing that boldness erased fear, while cowardice invited it and earned her only ... JEANE WESTIN Jules lips quivered, and I feared she was about to cry. Then she asked, “He bit off more than he c... LAURA KREITZER She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless chimes and starry skies;
And all that's best o... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dar... LORD BYRON She almost never left her bedroom, and when she did she was nude or wearing a silk tunic with nothin... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay ... LAINI TAYLOR She's an awesome athlete with tremendous power. At the beginning, maybe there was a little fear in t... KATHY WILBURN When did you star here?” I ask her. “Three days ago. Sir. Aspirant. Um—” She wrin... SABAA TAHIR The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but... JAMES ROBERTSON In one swift motion she’s out of his arms twirling about. Startled and then ecstatic, she feels li... SOLANGE NICOLE Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ... MARGARET MITCHELL Betrayal is too kind a word to describe a situation in which a father says he loves his daughter but... MARGARET SMITH She was small. Her shadow moved in the dance of chaos before her as the inferno blazed behind her an... HUBERT MARTIN Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought ... CHARLES FINCH She walked around the edge of the table to position her next shot. As she pulled her cue back she wa... ERIN NICHOLAS After reading Burgum, [Patricia Highsmith] wrote in her cahier that, like Kafka, she felt she was a ... ANDREW WILSON If e'er she knew an evil thought
She spoke no evil word:
Peace to the gentle! She hath sought... EBENEZER ELLIOTT ("THE CORN LAW RHYMER") Since sorrow never comes too late
And happiness too swiftly flies. THOMAS GRAY She stared at the stars like they were pillow for her mind and in their light she could rest her hea... CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a ... LILY KING She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could... ELIZABETH BOWEN I look at her and talk to her as an assistant coach at times. She doesn't say a lot to the other pla... AL SORRENTINO She has no fear of anything. I could picture her skydiving, I could picture her doing anything. She ... BRANDI MUIRHEAD And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the cir... ANTHONY LICCIONE Once Doc got an idea in her head that she was going to do something, you didn't stop her. She had th... ED HARRIS No chains can bind it, and no cell enclose:Swifter than light, it flies from pole to pole,And, in a ... WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivere... BIBLE Time flies, as he flies, adds increase to her truth,
And gives to her mind what he steals from her... MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE My aunt must have been perfectly well aware that she would not see Swann again, that she would never... MARCEL PROUST We are saddened by her current circumstances and hope she overcomes her problems as soon as possible... KATE MOSS As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, ... SALMAN RUSHDIE For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a c... KATE CHOPIN You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she... JOHN RUSKIN At first, she only remembered living at her mon's house, ... Then she began to remember more. ALAN HENDERSON She was dressed in Indian muslin, and beneath it she only wore a chemise of fine cambric, and by the... JACQUES CASANOVA Shelly shook her head and made sure she had plenty of space so that she wouldn’t hit anything. As ... NATHAN REESE MAHER When she walks and runs, she tries to use her missing leg. She loves to hug and kiss and play tug an... CAROL BEAVNIER And she knows then that she was right about her brother, that it takes an unbelievable strength to f... JULIA HOBAN The theologians may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from Heaven, a... EDWARD GIBBON But in her very first scene, she has to crawl into this different spirit to become a hard person. So... KATE BUCKLEY There is no greater heaven than the heart of a loving mother She takes care of you when you are... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I suppose it was the end of the world for her when her husband and her baby were killed. I suppose s... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM She kept her head about her, she kept her wits about her, she was observant, she paid attention, she... ROB DAVIS Yet it seemed to Bega that if she could continue to read, which had come so easily to her... then th... MELVYNN BRAGG She plays with her emotions on her sleeve, she's going to yell every once in a while. But her being ... MARQUETTE BURGESS She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN Tempus fugit means time flies, ... Mom says it a lot. She also says time and tide wait for no man an... BOBBY DARIN I don't think I could ever see her closely," the sentinel replied, "however close she came." His own... PETER S. BEAGLE So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there JOHN DRYDEN A little girl and her father were walking along in the evening. She was fascinated by the stars, and... FRANCIS GAY She's a star in her own right -- launched by the show -- but has proven herself on her own. She prov... BARRY JECKELL I am standing upon the seashore.A ship at my side spreads her whitesails to the morning breeze and s... HENRY VAN DYKE From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leavin... PETER S. BEAGLE Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?” Her stomach twisted. “No.” She shook her head, fer... MARISSA MEYER Finally, she took him in, all wet and sexy beneath her. Every breath and groan echoed over the ... LISA GILLIS His body was urgent against her, and she didn't have the heart anymore to fight...She saw his eyes, ... D.H. LAWRENCE She'd been there about a week and the way she looked, the way she acted, her confidence...She made m... BECKY HIROTA The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but... MARQUIS DE SADE I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and... HENRY VAN DYKE Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies,
Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies;
... GEORGE CRABBE
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