Winter Quotes - Page 27

• As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Morning, Fall, Eye

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.224, Verso

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• Here I sit, sober and perhaps even lucid, on the sort of winter's day that makes you realize a New Year is just around the corner and you've got very little to show for it, but if you are going to get anything done on this planet, you better pick it up with both hands and DO IT YOURSELF.

  Peter Laughner

  New Year, Hands, Years

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• Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.

  C. S. Lewis

  Daughter, Luck, Needs

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.109, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon; and it is this of which the poet sings.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Philosophy, Heart, Moon

  "Japan, the Beautiful and Myself". Yasunari Kawabata's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 12, 1968.

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• Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Prayer, Reading, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.34

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• The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot.

  Elinor Wylie

  Summer, Sweet, Fall

  Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.17, Kent State University Press

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• Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Water, Degrees, 1960s

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• Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor.

  William Shakespeare

  Balance, Self Improvement, Riches

  1603-4 Iago to Othello. Othello, act 3, sc.3, l.176-8.

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• I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Knowledge, Thinking, Squirrels

  "By the Waters of Babylon". Post-apocalyptic short story by Stephen Vincent Benet (first published in "The Saturday Evening Post" as "The Place of the Gods"), July 31, 1937.

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• For the third year in a row, the United States has set a record for winter warmth, federal scientists reported yesterday. With an average temperature of 38.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the three-month period of December 1999 through February 2000 was the warmest winter season in the last 105 years in the contiguous 48 states, the scientists said. That mark slightly surpassed the previous record of 37.8 degrees, set a year ago.

  William K. Stevens

  Average, Years, Yesterday

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• It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.

  Epictetus

  Summer, Opposites, Vices

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• The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Nightlife, Restaurants, Salzburg

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• It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to visit us. And all man's winters are His - the winter of our poverty, the winter of our sorrow, the winter of our unhappiness - even 'the winter of our discontent.

  George MacDonald

  Summer, Men, Sorrow

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.636, Delphi Classics

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• Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of society's institutions. In this sense, I certainly am a revolutionary.

  Cornelius Castoriadis

  Mean, Blood, Doe

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• In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.

  Dogen

  White, Use, Snowfall

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• There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I'll swear I can't see it that way.

  Bat Masterson

  Summer, Men, Ice

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• Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Heart, Sorrow, Ordinary

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Pyramids, Olympus, Levels

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• Men have higher body temperatures than women. If your heating goes out in winter, I recommend sleeping next to a man. Men are like portable heaters that snore.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Sleep

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• The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

  Alexis Korner

  Movement, Development, British

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• February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.

  Shirley Jackson

  Summer, Air, February

  Shirley Jackson (1966). “The Magic of Shirley Jackson”, p.781, Macmillan

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• Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Spring, Long

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• Now is the month of Maying, When merry lads are playing. Fa la la... Each with his bonny lass, upon the greeny grass. Fa la la... The Spring clad all in gladness, Doth laugh at winter's sadness. Fa la la.

  Thomas Morley

  Spring, Sadness, Laughing

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• On the first day of May the people of the crofter townland are up betimes and busy as bees about to swarm. This is the day of migrating, bho baile gu beinn (from townland to moorland), from the winter homestead to the summer sheiling. The summer of their joy is come, the summer of the sheiling, the song, the pipe and the dance, when the people ascend the hill to the clustered bothies, overlooking the distant sea from among the fronded ferns and fragrant heather, where neighbour meets neighbour, and lover meets lover.

  Alexander Carmichael

  Summer, Song, Sea

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• We've created the best indoor winter facility in the world. Having set that benchmark, it could inspire a whole new generation throughout the world.

  Phil Taylor

  Inspire, Generations, World

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