Cold Quotes - page 6

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. (Luis Barragán)
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can. View quote
Og Mandino
Old sundial, you stand here for Time: For Love, the vine that round your base, Its tendrils twines, and dares to climb, And lay one flower-capped spray in grace, Without the asking on your cold, Unsmiling and unfrowning face. View quote
Eleanor Farjeon
The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours. View quote
Ted Hughes
Oh won't you stay Stay a while with your own ones Don't ever stray Stray so far from your own ones 'Cause the world is so cold Don't care nothing for your soul That you share with your own ones. View quote
Van Morrison
One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds... View quote
Patrick Pearse
It will not hurt me when I am old, A running tide where moonlight burned Will not sting me like silver snakes; The years will make me sad and cold, It is the happy heart that breaks. View quote
Sara Teasdale
But you I never understood, Your spirit's secret hides like gold Sunk in a Spanish galleon Ages ago in waters cold. View quote
Sara Teasdale
The icy cold will cut us like a knife in the dark And we may lose everything in the wind But the Northern Lights are burning And they're giving off sparks. View quote
Jim Steinman
Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night I can see paradise by the dashboard light. View quote
Jim Steinman
How does it feel, When you're alone and you're cold inside? (Michael Jackson)
The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant. View quote
Roger Zelazny
My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures-a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one-there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best.... View quote
Roger Zelazny
No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold. View quote
Joseph Campbell
I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold. View quote
Terrence Howard
My shoe is off my foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold. View quote
Dr. Seuss
When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!" View quote
Eugene Field
We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war. View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev
We do not have the right to forget that reactionary imperialism exists and its forces actively operate in the world, that they encourage the arms race and that they try to restore the spirit of the Cold War. View quote
Andrei Grechko
These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light - the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer. View quote
David Foster Wallace
Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk's too big, the desk's too small, there's too much noise, there's too much quiet, it's too hot, it's too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all and simply to start. (Robert Harris (novelist))
Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death? View quote
Thomas Gray
If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe. View quote
Walter Lippmann
The scalded head feares cold water. View quote
George Herbert
My lodging is on the cold ground, And hard, very hard, is my fare, But that which grieves me more Is the coldness of my dear. View quote
John Gay