Ice Quotes

• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Relationship, Karma, Kindness

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. And as a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cates, dogs, butterflies and people.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Butterfly, Light

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.39, Penguin

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• What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents.
  Don't waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary.

  Jay Griffiths

  Fire, Ice Water, Air

  Jay Griffiths (2007). “Wild: An Elemental Journey”, p.168, Penguin UK

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• The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue, Chapman wrote. All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead.

  Philip K. Chapman

  America, Years, Europe

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• If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if we feel, we would that another's nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is Love.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Children, Eye

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”

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• Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

  George Iles

  Science, Focus, Lenses

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• Ice is for death and endings.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

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• Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

  Ovid

  Time, Hate, Anger

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• Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.

  Don Kardong

  Sports, Food, Inspiration

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• By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life.

  John Muir

  Fire, Water, Design

  John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.22, e-artnow

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• I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

  Debi Thomas

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• Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

  Robert Frost

  Fire, Poetry, World

  "Fire and Ice" l. 1 (1923)

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• I have often thought that my work with wildlife taught me the meaning of patience, and my work with the big trees taught me the meaning of humility, and my work with the ice has taught me the meaning of mortality.

  James Balog

  Humility, Tree, Taught

  Source: collider.com

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• Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

  Vicki Baum

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Vicki Baum (2016). “Grand Hotel”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• When we think of classic American desserts, we tend to imagine apple pie and ice cream. However, the most classic American dessert of all might be the chocolate chip cookie.

  Homaro Cantu

  Thinking, Apples, Pie

  "Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Made Tableside" by Homaro Cantu, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2013.

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• The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

  Josh Billings

  Fear, Anxiety, Bears

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• You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.

  O. Winston Link

  Hockey, Ice Cream, Sticks

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• Life cracked like ice!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Cracked

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.204, Cambridge University Press

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• I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.

  Stephen King

  Reality, Thinking, Lakes

  Stephen King (1999). “Bag of Bones”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Mind, Needs

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.121, Bantam

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• The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

  George R. R. Martin

  Eye, Responsibility, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.28, Bantam

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• My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!

  Ginger Rogers

  Ice Cream, Age, Ice Hockey

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• Fear cuts deeper than swords.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fear, Cutting, Bravery

  George R. R. Martin (2016). “A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.566, Bantam

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• What's dead may never die.

  George R. R. Martin

  Daenerys, May, Targaryens

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.992, Bantam

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• Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

  Jimmy Dean

  Sex, Food, Love Is

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