Melting Quotes - Page 3

• It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

  Antonin Scalia

  Constitution, Illusion, Court Justice

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.58, Regnery Publishing

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• Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.

  Antonin Scalia

  Court Judges, Law, Ideas

  "Scalia: Women Don’t Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2011.

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• For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the traditional Christian virtues are essential.

  Antonin Scalia

  Christian, Order, Essentials

  "At Houston lecture, Scalia explores Christian virtues and economic systems". www.houstonchronicle.com. September 6, 2013.

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• [T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.

  Antonin Scalia

  Pride, Army, Gun

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• Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Reality, Soul

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.532

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• The morning steals upon the night,
  Melting the darkness.

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Night, Darkness

  William Shakespeare, Aaron Augustus MORGAN (1860). “The Mind of Shakspeare, as Exhibited in His Works. By the Rev. A. A. Morgan”, p.162

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• He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting ice-cream cone, bicycling along the river, laughing, talking, kissing, a sappy score drowning out the dialogue because the screenwriter had no idea what these two people might say to each other.

  Richard Russo

  Summer, Memories, Kissing

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Jul 31, 2016

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• Who, of men, can tell
  That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell
  To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail,
  The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale,
  The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones,
  The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones,
  Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet,
  If human souls did never kiss and greet?

  John Keats

  Sweet, Flower, Science

  'Endymion' (1818) bk. 1, l. 835

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• I love that New York City is a true melting pot.

  Stephanie Szostak

  New York, Cities, Pot

  "My New York: Stephanie Szostak". Interview with Lauren Valenti, www.elle.com. April 6, 2013.

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• Probably more than anything else, the place that we really see the effects of the power of even the relatively mild temperature increases so far is in the melting of everything frozen on the planet.

  Bill McKibben

  Frozen, Temperature, Increase

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in the Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh forming a human 350 against the backdrop of the melting glaciers. This is not their fault, and yet they're stepping up to be part of the solution.

  Bill McKibben

  Buddhist, Moving, Email

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• The culture of chefs is a melting pot, and I always say this - if we could put all the heads of state around a table, each representing their food culture, and then each take one bite of the other's and pass it to the right, and then explain the ideals and culture around those bites, our world problems would be easier to solve.

  Robert Irvine

  Our World, Food Culture, Tables

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• In the same way, you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds, The single bird, the obscure moon- The obscure moon lighting an obscure world Of thing that would never be quite expressed, Where you yourself were never quite yourself And did not want nor have to be.

  Wallace Stevens

  Spring, Moon, Clouds

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.288, Vintage

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• I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket. Sometimes I'm the slush that sticks to the bottom of your work pants, but I can easily be the melting snowflakes clinging to your long lashes. I know that some people like: sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, but you take me as I am and never forget to pack an umbrella.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Rain, Clouds, Light

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• On his face was an expression of absolute love. Melting, soul-touching, raw, unbridled love, the kind of person dies for, sacrifices and suffers for. It was the kind of love that a person would wait two hundred years to see fulfilled. It was True Love in its purest form.

  Jude Deveraux

  Sacrifice, Expression, Years

  Jude Deveraux (2013). “True Love”, p.354, Ballantine Books

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• To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Soul, Despair

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2012). “The Beautiful and Damned”, p.259, Courier Corporation

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• Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.

  Mia Kirshner

  Sunset, Artist, Sky

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• America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

  Eric Ripert

  America, Comfort, Classic

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• Deep, bone-melting pleasure surged through Kira’s subconscious as he thrust forward again, almost causing her to shout at the crash of rapture filling her. “That is what I feel when I’m inside you.” His voice was low, eyes lit up with blinding green. “And you will feel every measure of the same, I promise.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Eye, Voice, Promise

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• I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it. (“Advance Notice”)

  Richard Matheson

  Morning, Typewriters, Office

  Richard Matheson (2003). “Collected Stories”, Gauntlet Press

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• Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that does not mean conformity. We are more than a melting pot, we are a kaleidoscope, where every turn of history refracts new light on the old promise.

  Barbara Jordan

  Mean, Light, Becoming One

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• The glue of mutual need that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away. Dark patches, not light, show in the spaces between us.

  Suzanne Collins

  Dark, Space, Light

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

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• So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new world and Europe was the old," in one stroke eradicating the narratives of indigenous persons for whom America was hardly new, and any nonwhite kids whose old worlds had been in Africa or Asia, not Europe.

  Tim Wise

  Children, Kids, Color

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• Streams of melting snow.

  Kiersten White

  Snow, Melting Snow, Streams

  Kiersten White (2010). “Paranormalcy”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Does he think to scare me? Arya kissed him where his nose should be and plucked the grave worm from his eye to eat it, but it melted like a shadow in her hand. The yellow skull was melting too, and the kindliest old man that she had ever seen was smiling down on her. "No one has ever tried to eat my worm before," he said. "Are you hungry, child?" Yes, she thought, but not for food.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Eye, Men

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