Best 828 quotes in «cold quotes» category

A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.

A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold.

Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that.

A library is thought in cold storage.

All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away.

Alone, human beings can feel hunger. Alone, we can feel cold. Alone, we can feel pain. To feel poor, however, is something we do only in comparison to others.

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.

Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

An audience is the most dangerous thing in the world, because they paid, and they're looking at you. And they paid! And there's a lot of them! And they cast a cold eye, because they paid. To be on the stage, you have to be very secure.

And anyway, I suspect he secretly liked it when a woman was cold and distant

A hot stake is better than a cold chop.

A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.

Although it was very cold, he wore no coat. I think some English people think coats are for the weak.

A man who has drank his drinks cold at the same expense for one week can never be presented with them warm again.

And then it gets so hot that they keep the supermarkets too cold. Hot, cold. Hot, cold. It gives me the runs." Mr. Landowsky

And there's Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold.

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

Apparently their numerous tattoos gave them protection against the cold as they had no coats.

Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).

As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.

As for them pretty light-skinned models standin in the cold, ah yeah they with us.

As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.

A poem is a liminal space that can offer a sensation of belonging. A poem won't bring you a cold beer, but it may offer you a stool where you can sit down and feel momentarily at home. LGBT folks need intergenerational spaces where their lives and experiences are foregrounded.

Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.

A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you're going all out.

At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

Bernie Sanders has shown that socialism is no longer the barrier that it used to be during the Cold War.

both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.

But you just said you loved me." "I do, Mer. That's the point. I can't make you like me. I can't stand the thought of you hungry or cold or scared. I can't make you a Six.

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

at least i'm talkng to myself. instead of giving myself the cold shoulder

Babies act out when they're hungry, cold, tired. They do this for survival.

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

Berlin is the testicles of the West, every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.

Business friendly is the middle ground between being too cold and uncaring and the other extreme of being too familiar