Freezing Quotes

• There is one living organism, called a tardigrade, that has survived the five great mass extinctions on Earth, and it can survive in vacuums in space and boiling hot water and freezing subzero temperatures.

  Alycia Debnam Carey

  Space, Mass Extinction, Water

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.

  James Joyce

  Zero, Space, Dawn

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.759, Delphi Classics

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• It is freezing fit to split a stone.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Winter, Splits, Stones

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• At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.

  Herman Melville

  Ocean, Night, Anchors

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.101

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• I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing!

  Alan Green

  Wind, Arctic, Knows

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• Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death

  Cressida Cowell

  Degrees, Twelve, Hopeless

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  To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

  Susan Sontag

  Time, Moments, Photograph

  Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta

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• Even if I were lying on the sun itself, I would be freezing there without you. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lying, Would Be, Sun

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• Police on my drawers
  I had to pause
  40 ounce in my lap
  And it's freezing my balls

  Eazy-E

  Hip Hop, Police, Lap

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• There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. The painless ones go around putting their hands on hot stoves, freezing their feet to the point of gangrene, scalding the lining of their throats with boiling coffee, because there is no warning anguish. Evolution does not favour them. So too perhaps with the fearless women, because there aren't very many of them around. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pain, Fear, Coffee

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the virtues of sympathy, charity, and non-resistance may be, and often have been, manifested in excess. ... You will agree to this in general, for in spite of the Gospel, in spite of Quakerism, in spite of Tolstoi, you believe in fighting fire with fire, in shooting down usurpers, locking up thieves, and freezing out vagabonds and swindlers.

  William James

  Believe, Fighting, Fire

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.284, Harvard University Press

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• It's always freezing on planes.

  Paz de la Huerta

  Planes

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• Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

  Isabel Allende

  Photography, Soul, Pieces

  Isabel Allende (2016). “Of Love and Shadows: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.

  Gene Cernan

  Space, Clouds, Sight

  "This much I know". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.

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• A little slower, sweetheart. Cape Cod is freezing over.

  Rick Riordan

  Capes, Littles, Cape Cod

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• Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces - all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top. It can be hard to explain. But I also relate to the quote that says, Iif you have to ask, you will never understand.

  Bear Grylls

  Men, People, Risk

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• It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy. Just cold enough that she could justifiably wear all her favorite clothes—cardigans and tights and leg warmers.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Clothes, Icy, Legs

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.67, Pan Macmillan

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• And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.

  David Foster Wallace

  Beach, Rain, Sky

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• Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close to freezing, utterly exhausted, and in danger of falling into a bottomless crevasse, yet he wouldn't want to be anywhere else. Sipping a piña colada under a palm tree at the edge of the turquoise ocean is idyllic, but it just doesn't compare to the exhilaration he feels on the windswept ridge.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Business, Stress, Ocean

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.34, Penguin

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• If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."

  Jean-Jacques Nattiez

  Music, Writing, Flirting

  Jean-Jacques Nattiez (1990). “Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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• What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen,
  What old December's bareness everywhere!

  William Shakespeare

  Dark, Winter, December

  William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 97: How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been”

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• What is your problem?” I asked, scooping the freezing mess out of my cleavage. “We got unfinished business,” he reminded me. “My name’s not Bill.” He chuckled. “Yeah, I loved that movie. Shoulda brought a katana, but it seemed like an unfair advantage.

  Karen Chance

  Unfinished Business, Names, Bills

  Karen Chance (2012). “Fury's Kiss: A Midnight's Daughter Novel”, p.117, Penguin

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• Allow yourself emotion-backed demands only for physical necessities such as air to breathe, food if starving, and shelter if freezing.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Air, Demand, Shelter

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• All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rathy they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.

  Andre Trocme

  Wisdom, Peace, Mean

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• We must add our voices to those who cry out that there is a standard below which we will not allow human beings to live, and that that standard is not at the freezing nor starving point....In a democracy all are responsible.

  Hannah G. Solomon

  Responsibility, Voice, Democracy

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