Cold Water Quotes
62 quotes by 60 authors
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There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and…
— Matthew Fontaine Maury
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The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the…
— Lawrence Durrell
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy to pour cold…
— William Barclay
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Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for…
— Dominic Savio
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Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When your life revolves around having…
— Maurice Chevalier
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We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close…
— Rumi
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There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As…
— Vasily Grossman
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An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.
— Thomas McGuane
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Patience is like ice cold water running through your veins, but our love will be immense
— Alejandro Perez
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Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
— Gore Vidal
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When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you…
— Muso Soseki
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Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold…
— Neville Cardus
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The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh, untainted air.
— Theodore Gordon
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The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water, a practice I…
— Astley Cooper
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That's the old ecological tale that explains humans' inability to fully appreciate global warming. To wit: if you drop a frog in a pan of…
— Clive Thompson
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I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and…
— Charles Handy
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What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were pushed out toward…
— Paul Harding
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I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through…
— Tayeb Salih
Who Wrote These Cold Water Quotes
60 authors contributed a total of 62 Cold Water Quotes, led by these top contributors: