Freeze Quotes - Page 3

• Trying to run Congress without human relationships is like trying to run a car without motor oil. Should we be surprised when the whole thing freezes up?

  Jonathan Haidt

  Running, Motor Oil, Car

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• The mirror had broken into millions of pieces and the wind blew them all over the world. If a person got a speck in their eye, the person would only see the ugly side of things from then on, but if a piece got in their blood and it reached their heart, it would freeze into a solid block of ice and they couldn't feel anything anymore

  Isobelle Carmody

  Block, Heart, Eye

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• The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once again, the warm tears freeze upon my face. These rocks and mountains, all this matter, the snow itself, the air- the earth is ringing. All is moving, full of power, full of light.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Moving, Light, Rocks

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.198, Penguin

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• All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination or understanding. Any uncultured cretin can close his eyes and try to reduce the issues down to linear simplisms and say, "I am doubting, I am proving my magisterial or sovereign control over my own mind." Doubt is a useful and significant test of one's critical powers, but by itself it bears little if any significant cultural charge of enlightenment or satori; indeed it is the very opposite kind of thing.

  Kenny Smith

  Eye, Opposites, Issues

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• The book is a uniquely durable object, one that can be fully enjoyed without being damaged. A book doesn't require fuel, food, or service; it isn't very messy and rarely makes a noise. A book can be read over and over, then passed on to friends, or resold at a garage sale. A book will not crash or freeze and will still work when filled with sand. Even if it falls into the bath, it can be dried out and finished. Books require no special training to operate.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Book, Fall, Training

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• The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.

  Tara Brach

  Relax, Safe, Messages

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• The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Yoke, Want, Moments

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.3, Beacon Press

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• When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

  Muso Soseki

  Art, Confused, Ice

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• Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down.  The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows to a deeper blue, to pale violet, to purple, then thins to grey.  Slowly the wind falls, and the still air begins to freeze.  The solid eastern ridge is black; it has a bloom on it like the dust on the skin of a grape.  The west flares briefly.  The long, cold amber of the afterglow casts clear black lunar shadows.  There is an animal mystery in the light that sets upon the fields like a frozen muscle that will flex and wake at sunrise.

  J. A. Baker

  Fall, Eye, Animal

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• I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.

  Robert Johnson

  Husband, Men, Way

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• I dont think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didnt achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.

  Alan Cranston

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives of that which is uniquely himself. He makes himself naked, recording his nakedness in the written word. Herein lies some of the terror which frequently freezes a writer, preventing him from producing. Herein, too, lies some of the courage that must be entailed in letting others learn how one has experienced or is experiencing the world.

  Sidney Jourard

  Love, Lying, Writing

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• Bass! How low can you go?
  Death row...what a brother know.
  Once again, back is the incredible,
  The rhyme animal, the uncannable "D!"
  Public Enemy Number One.
  Five-O said, "Freeze!" and I got numb.
  Can I tell 'em that I really never had a gun?
  But it's the wax that the Terminator X spun.

  Chuck D

  Brother, Rap, Animal

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• The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would melt and flood all low-lying land; or the oceans would freeze and the whole world would be locked in eternal winter. Just a nudge in either direction would be enough.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Lying, Ocean, Moving

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• I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought, and I see truth reflecting back at me: Every time fear freezes and worry writhes, every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God? That I really don't believe? But if I'm grateful to the Bridge Builder for the crossing of a million strong bridges, thankful for a million faithful moments, my life speaks my beliefs and I trust Him again.

  Ann Voskamp

  Strong, Stress, Believe

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• Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

  George Iles

  Science, Water, Enthusiasm

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• When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.

  Rob Bell

  Fear, Real, Track

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• Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright.

  Marlene Dumas

  Time, Art, Light

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• Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Dream, Moving, Passion

  Stasi Eldredge (2013). “Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You”, p.108, David C Cook

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• Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Heart, Blame

  1967 To My Daughters, With Love,'First Meeting'.

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• We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive.

  Lennart Nilsson

  Heart, Technique, Use

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• Onstage, you just have to tell the absolute truth about the character you are playing. You hope you communicate it, and you hope it comes back like a tennis ball. If you're listening to the sound of your own voice, nobody else is. The audience knows, and they freeze on you.

  Carol Channing

  Character, Voice, Tennis

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• In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or matrix wherein meaning occurs and proliferates. In the absence of writing, we find ourselves situated in the field of discourse as we are embedded in the natural landscape; indeed, the two matrices are not separable. We can no more stabilize the language and render its meanings determinate than we can freeze all motion and metamorphosis within the land.

  David Abram

  Writing, Land, Two

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• To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

  Wendell Willkie

  Love, Hate, Loss

  Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “One World”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Pockets, Want

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