Warmth Quotes - Page 24

• prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.

  Simone Weil

  Prayer, Heart, Soul

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.32, Routledge

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• Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let us down. Companionship, security, lifelong physical and spiritual and emotional warmth - all were to be had for the twist of a ring and the breathing of a vow. And to be had no other way.

  Shana Alexander

  Marriage, Spiritual, Emotional

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• The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Sun

  Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Another Part of the Wood”, p.154, Penguin UK

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• Reminiscent of the radiant shadings of a sunset, Tangerine Tango marries the vivaciousness and adrenaline rush of red with the friendliness and warmth of yellow, to form a high-visibility, magnetic hue that emanates heat and energy.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Sunset, Yellow, Hue

  "Pantone Announces "Tangerine Tango" Is The Official Color Of 2012" by Tracey Lomrantz Lester, www.glamour.com. December 09, 2011.

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• We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although as poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.

  William Booth

  Beer, Men, Light

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.

  Winifred Holtby

  Summer, Laughter, Stupid

  Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

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• The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Morning, Book, Yellow

  "Brown : The Last Discovery of America". Book by Richard Rodriguez, 2003.

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• Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Illumination, Atheism, Fagots

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.42

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• John Kerry spent the day reading to preschoolers ... and the kids said Kerry actually lacked warmth and failed to articulate a clear message.

  David Letterman

  Reading, Kids, Messages

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• When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.

  Jeff Garlin

  Feelings, Trying, Actors

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• When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.

  Natalie MacMaster

  Fans, Return, Certain

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• Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.

  Thomas Cogswell Upham

  Sun, Rays, Holiness

  Thomas Cogswell Upham (1848). “Religious Maxims, Having a Connection with the Doctrines and Practice of Holiness”, p.8

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• The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east came to be regarded as the source of light and warmth, happiness and glory, the west was associated with darkness and chill, decay and death. This led to the custom of burying the dead so as to face the east when they rose again, and of building temples and shrines with an opening toward the east. To effect this, Vitruvius, two thousand years ago, gave precise rules, which are still followed by Christian architects.

  Isaac Newton

  Christian, Light, Years

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• Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.

  Candace Wheeler

  Mean, White, Color

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• Given that you're meeting a sloth, that feeling is generally joy, excitement, warmth, and love. What do those feelings smell like, you ask? Like laundry, watermelon rind, the top of a baby's head, boiling water, and fresh cut grass all mixed together.

  Ann Burton

  Baby, Cutting, Smell

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I get so much from having the opportunity to interface with the younger people and to bring information to them and to represent our culture and our way of life. The feeling and the warmth and the love, it's unbelievable. The type of exchange that goes on between students and teachers or visiting people who are doing master classes, and not just when they're musicians. Even general classes, when the students are not necessarily musicians.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Teacher, Opportunity, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way.

  Charles Mackay

  Flower, Blow, Men

  Charles Mackay (1859). “Ballads and Lyrics”

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• Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit.

  Robert Mondavi

  Passion, Heart, Wine

  Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Pain, Soul, Might

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.263, Pan Macmillan

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• And, to be honest, if weed is a gateway drug, then I really did hop the fence, but sometimes I can't help but miss the sticky-sweet warmth of a good old fashioned hot box.

  Kris Kidd

  Weed, Sweet, Missing

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• Deep at the bottom of the well no warmth has yet returned,
  The rain which sighs and feels so cold has dampened withered roots.
  What sort of man at such a time would come to visit the teacher?
  As this is not a time for flowers, I find I've come alone.

  Su Shi

  Teacher, Rain, Flower

  Su Shi, “Visiting The Temple Of Auspicious Fortune Alone On Winter Solstice”

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• Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth.

  William Ellery Channing

  Love, Affection, Live By

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• A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.

  William Butler Yeats

  Journey, Men, Thinking

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.85, Library of Alexandria

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• This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.

  Martha Beck

  Running, Horse, Way

  Martha Beck (2011). “Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic”, p.139, Harmony

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• September is the month of maturity; the heaped basket and the garnered sheaf. It is the month of climax and completion. September! I never tire of turning it over and over in my mind. It has warmth, depth and colour. It glows like old amber.

  Patience Strong

  Maturity, Mind, Months

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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