Heat Quotes

• Heat is required to forge anything. Every
  great accomplishment is the story of a flaming
  heart.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Heart, Accomplishment, Stories

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• When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Light, Politics

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• The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

  Marie Osmond

  Iron, Steel, Lord

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• It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Summer, Baseball

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• If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

  Harry S. Truman

  Wisdom, Adversity, Gossip

  Mr Citizen (1960) ch. 15 (see also Harry Vaughan 22.6)

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• Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.

  Robert De Niro

  Walks, Flats, Feels

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• When I feel the heat, I see the light.

  Everett Dirksen

  Light, Feels

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• Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ice, Debate, Should

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• Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dust, Soul, Stronger

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.924, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Summer, Humor

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• Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Anger, Enemy

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 1, sc. 1, l. 140

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• I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

  Naomi Campbell

  Flower, Dresses, Underwear

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Wisdom, Hard Work, Maturity

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• Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Fire, Stones, Source

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• This is a ridiculous heat wave we're in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that for the entire month of June, he will stop blowing hot air.

  Bill Maher

  Summer, June, Air

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• Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

  William Penn

  Truth, Freedom, Suffering

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.135

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• If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

  Ben Stein

  Summer, Cancun, Ifs

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• One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Patriotic, Light

  Woodrow Wilson (1913). “Addresses, Messages and Speeches, 1897-”

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• Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

  Ella Maillart

  Sunshine, Ice, Gliding

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• I can pay my rent now. I guess I could always do that, but now I can get an apartment with heat.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Pay, Apartment, I Can

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• First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

  Huston Smith

  Political Differences, Community, Soul

  Huston Smith (2003). “The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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• Tea is nought but this: first you heat the water, then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know.

  Sen no Rikyu

  Tea Drinking, Water, Needs

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• Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas.

  Richard Pombo

  Home, Oil, Use

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• In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

  Edmund Muskie

  Anger, Political, Littles

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• Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of that freedom, that power, and fears the wildness in herself that wants to live as beasts live, moved purely by need and desire. She has felt torn between the heat of her limbs and the thoughts in her mind telling her to be careful and good and always calm. Don't scream or cry, don't run to him and throw yourself at his feet, pleading for him to take you in his arms, don't strip off your clothes and run naked to the water, wild with wanting.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Running, Horse, Rivers

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