Quotes of: Cold-weather Keyword

He opened his mouth and let it loose, the blast of cold air freezing the Dark Ones instantaneously. Kiril saw himself in the mirror and the curls of cold air seeping from the corners of his mouth through his parted lips. Damn, but is was good to be a...

Burning Desire

A sudden damp coldness clung to the air around us. I lifted my head, eyeing the burnt orange sky. One drop of water fell, splashing off my cheek. Then the sky opened up, drenching us in cold rain within seconds. I sighed. "Really, it has to rain?

Apollyon

A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity now, outside the light that burned so brightly and so briefly. It was cold outside that light and fire. No one had greater cause...

The Midnight Heir

...indeed, with the Radletts, you never could tell. Why, for instance, would Victoria bellow like a bull and half kill Jassy whenever Jassy said, in a certain tone of voice, pointing her finger with a certain look, "Fancy?" I think they hardly knew w...

Love in a Cold Climate

When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming...

The Road

It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men's marriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize and segregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a few great hygienists might enclose or limit the life o...

G.K. Chesterton

Yuri Orlov: [on the brisk trade in USSR weapons right after the Cold War ended] I have a feeling it wasn't exactly what Comrade Lenin had in mind when he advocated the redistribution of wealth. But I wasn't the only one offering a crash course in cap...

Lord of War

I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should feel. For when I look upon that face, That cold, unheeding, frigid brown, Where neither rage nor fear has place, By Heaven! I can...

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Much as Cold War nuclear strategists could argue about winning a nuclear war by having more survivors, advocates of a Global Warming War might see the United States, Western Europe, or Russia as better able to ride out climate disruption and manipula...

Jamais Cascio

I crack jokes and play games and that's really more my nature than being cold.

Bernhard Langer

I wanted to say a certain thing to a certain man, a certain true thing that had crept into my head. I opened my head, at the place provided, and proceeded to pronounce the true thing that lay languishing there—that is, proceeded to propel that true...

Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts

This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly

The Complete Poems

Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.

Dance Dance Dance

I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone.

Eve

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Here on Earth

What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfort Of being strangers, at least to ourselves.

Blizzard of One

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

I Capture the Castle

The topic of weather isn’t small talk, when you’re conversing with a meteorologist.

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

He would make a good lamp post if he'd weather better and didn't have to eat.

Player Piano

The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events.

Piers Corbyn

How disorienting and isolating immortality must be, and how strong he must be to weather it.

The Delicate Dependency: A Novel of the Vampire Life