Cold Climate Quotes

• Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this nation or the nations of the world-such as, for example, that exhaustion of the world's oil supply will bring all transportation and machinery to a standstill through lack of lubrication, or that exhaustion of the earth's stores of coal will make life unlivable in these cold climates-just smile and reply that the worst troubles of all are those that never happen [and] that you prefer not to cross shaky bridges until you come to them.

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  B. C. Forbes

  Bridges   Oil   Next  

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• . . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

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  Richard Paul Evans

  War   Character   Winter  

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• You cannot ask which system is the better because you cannot standardize one system for the whole of the world. You cannot have one stereotyped code of morality for every country. One system may work very well in one country and very badly in another. You cannot grow a tropical flower in a cold climate.

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  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Country   Flower   May  

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• Meat is necessary when there is hard physical work to be done, or in a very cold climate, or when edible plants cannot be found...Animal flesh provides all the substances we need, both for the intensive working of our organism and for maintaining a normal temperature in cold climates.

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  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Animal   Normal   Meat  

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• All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.

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  Herbert Spencer

  Light   Organization   Evil  

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.73

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• Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

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  John Milton

  Years   Wings   Age  

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 44

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• you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.

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  Anne Sexton

  Marriage   Song   Kissing  

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I know what it's like to live in a cold climate. I grew up in the Snow Belt, north of Toronto in Canada, and I did years and years of running outside.

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  Victoria Pratt

  Running   Years   Snow  

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