Winter Quotes
1406 quotes by 997 authors
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It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.
— Pierre Loti
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The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.
— Richard Sibbes
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If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they…
— Richard Sibbes
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Life is possible only through challenges. Life is possible only when you have both good weather and bad weather, when you have both pleasure and…
— Rajneesh
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Remember: life is a rhythm between day and night, summer and winter. It is a continuous rhythm. Never stop anywhere! Be moving! And the bigger…
— Rajneesh
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As cold as everything looks in winter, the sun has not forsaken us. He has only drawn away for a little, for good reasons, one…
— George MacDonald
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We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.
— Henry David Thoreau
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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
— Heraclitus
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After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
— Samuel Rutherford
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a…
— Dean Koontz
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I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.
— Bill Watterson
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.
— William Shakespeare
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Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the…
— John Burroughs
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Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some…
— Plutarch
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There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on…
— Ruth Stout
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The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an…
— Carl Sagan
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Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food…
— Abraham Lincoln
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