Ice Quotes - Page 2

• There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Half, Earth

  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.561, Bantam

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• Spoon the sauce over the ice cream. It will harden. This is what you have been working for.

  Nicholson Baker

  Ice Cream, Spoons, Sauce

  Nicholson Baker (1996). “The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber”, Vintage

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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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• I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

  George R. R. Martin

  Blood, Ink, Song Of Ice And Fire

  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.2820, Bantam

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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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• There are no men like me. There's only me

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Men, Like Me

  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.1290, Bantam

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• A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

  George R. R. Martin

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.521, 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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• The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

  Clara Schumann

  Tea, Rooms, Cold

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• How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

  Anna Held

  Morning, Water, Firsts

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• It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

  Frank Zappa

  Fire, Two, World

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

  Thornton Wilder

  Life, Ice Cream, Dessert

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 1.

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• It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.

  Steve Yzerman

  Sports, Real, Too Much

  IGN interview, www.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

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• Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us.
  The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.

  Vance Havner

  Heart, Clay, May

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• Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

  Dean Koontz

  Kindness, Winning, Knowing

  Dean Koontz, “Dragon Tears”

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• We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

  Vance Havner

  Kings, Heart, Dust

  Vance Havner (0101). “It is Time”, p.63, Solid Christian Books

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• You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.

  Joe Sakic

  Blow, Knowing, Skating

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• Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.

  Paul Morand

  Hockey, Mirrors, Admire

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• You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

  Amy Lowell

  Hands, Fire, Snow

  Amy Lowell, Melissa Bradshaw (2002). “Selected Poems of Amy Lowell”, p.66, Rutgers University Press

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• Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.

  Ashley Wagner

  Sweet, I Can, Elegant

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• I rolled my eyes in aggravation and glared at the ceiling, hating what I had to confess. Lend knew how much it affected me, taking souls, and I always felt guilty and dirty, like he was judging me even though he tried not to. The faerie came after me when Reth was down and I sucked out some of her soul.Good.I-Good?Yes. Good.I shuddered. You don't have the creepy, ice thing in you. It's not good.You here, safe and alive? Good.I smiled sadly and knocked on the wall three times. I-knock-love-knock-you-knock.He knocked three times back.

  Kiersten White

  Wall, Hate, Dirty

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• It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.

  Matthew Henson

  Wind, Land, Snow

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• Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

  Robert Frost

  Hate, Thinking, Fire

  "Fire and Ice" l. 5 (1923)

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• Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance.

  William Wordsworth

  Distance, Eye, Frozen

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.290, Wordsworth Editions

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• It should stimulate the mind as well as the appetite. The well made cocktail is one of the most gracious of drinks. It pleases the senses. The shared delight of those who partake in common of this refreshing nectar breaks the ice of formal reserve. Taut nerves relax, taut muscles relax, tired eyes brighten, tongues loosen, friendships deepen, the whole world becomes a better place in which to live.

  David A. Embury

  Eye, Tired, Mind

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