Bitter cold Quote by Louis L'Amour

“What about fateful turns in your life? Naturalists like Thomas Hardy proposed that some people are simply born under 'a blighted star' like his…

— Roger Leslie

“To augment their misery, a contagious disorder of a dangerous nature spread through the land; and, rendered more virulent by the uncleanness, the indifferent…

— Walter Scott

“Compared with White Fang, they were frail and flabby, and clutched life without any strength in their grip. White Fang had come straight from…

— Jack London

“He was not being courageous as he bore the freezing stream for his wife and children. He simply chose between the lesser of two…

— Sage Steadman

“Such were the shepherds of Judea! In appearance, rough and savage as the gaunt dogs with them around the blaze; in fact, simple-minded, tender-hearted;…

— Lew Wallace

“Dr. Weston Price, who documented the detrimental health effects that manifested in a single generation when Australian Aboriginal children who thrived for millennia on…

— Deborah Kesten

“The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.”

— Douglas Adams

“To the relatively poor (who are so much worse off than the poor absolutely) education is in most cases a mocking cruelty.”

— George Gissing

“The education of our hero, Edward Waverley, was of a nature somewhat desultory. In infancy his health suffered, or was supposed to suffer (which…

— Walter Scott

“Thence are we a hardy generation, and able to endure fatigue, and we give proofs from what original we are sprung.”

— Ovid

“That tale is a fantasy. There is no evidence that people became more intelligent with time. Foragers knew the secrets of nature long before…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar