Humanity Quote by Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Constant action overcomes cold; being still overcomes heat.”

— Lao Tzu

“It is in the bitter cold of life, that you recognize people who are the equivalent of a warm blanket.”

— Meeta Ahluwalia

“The warmth was pushed aside, as always, by the cold grip of reality.”

— Julie Lessman

“…truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not…

— Herman Melville

“In bantering lies the key to human warmth”

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of…

— Sydney Smith

“I waited, hesitant to go out into the cold again. It was one of those days that have no mercy on your toes, that…

— Rawi Hage

“The thing with heat is, no matter how cold you are, no matter how much you need warmth, it always, eventually, becomes too much.”

— Victoria Aveyard

“There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amidst the…

— Anonymous

“one of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.”

— H.G. Wells

“Others, I am not the first, Have willed more mischief than they durst: If in the breathless night I too Shiver now, 'tis nothing…

— A.E. Housman

“Cold men destroy women,” my mother wrote me years later. “They woo them with something personable that they bring out for show, something annexed…

— Lorrie Moore