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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• It's always freezing on planes.

  Paz de la Huerta

  Planes

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

  Rick Riordan

  Capes, Littles, Cape Cod

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• You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level the crisis can be ascribed to wandering about in freezing rain without the benefit of adequate waterproofing, the deeper cause is more likely to be found in some emotional trauma. However, unlike the heroines of your favorite novels, your constitution has not been weakened by the privations of life in earlier, harsher centuries. No tuberculosis, no childhood polio, no unhygienic living conditions. You'll survive.' " pg. 303

  Diane Setterfield

  Rain, Loss, Emotional

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• I won't miss having to stand for two hours at 4:30 a.m. and have freezing cold glue applied to my feet. I won't miss two-hour drives to work or long, long, long days sitting in my trailer waiting...waiting...waiting. I won't miss one day off a week. I won't miss glue in my ears. But I would do it all again tomorrow.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Two, Feet, Long

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• Without you to hold i'll be freezing.

  Ed Sheeran

  Drunk, Without You

  Song: Drunk, Album: Plus, 2011

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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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• 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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• Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Morning, Fun, Moving

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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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• 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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• For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past the border of a fiery life lies the netherworld. I can trace this road, which took me through places so hot the very air burned the lungs. I did not turn back. I pressed on, and eventually passed over the border, beyond which lies a place that is wordless and cold, so cold that it, like mercury, burns a freezing blue flame.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Lying, Passion, Past

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• It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.

  A. A. Milne

  Attitude, Earthquakes, Snow

  1928 The House at Pooh Corner, ch.1.

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