Approaching Winter Quotes

#1. When his hands were dry and chapped, he recalled the softness of her skin. When the world shivered at the approaching winter, he recalled the warmth of being beside her. When he felt the sneering judgment of the eyes around him, he recalled the invincibility she'd instilled in him with her belief.

Alexandra Bracken

#2. But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North")

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#3. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy episode - may be coming to an end. Such a catastrophe would be no reason for despair.

George Santayana

#5. When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.

Joel Salatin

#6. Success lies in a masterful consistency around a few fundamentals. It really is simple. Not easy. But simple.

Robin Sharma

#7. She went to the AutoChef, programmed a vitamin smoothie. And was shocked when that's exactly what she got.

J.D. Robb

#8. We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not.

Robert Henri

#9. In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.

Portia De Rossi

#10. Find your noble purpose and defeat any residue of fear.

Farshad Asl

#11. When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#12. The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, and to winter, and you can't but help think back to the year that was, and then hopefully looking forward to the year that is approaching.

Enya

#13. She frowned at me. "You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to have gotten the giggles."
Wizards don't giggle," I said, hardly able to speak. "This is cackling.

Jim Butcher

#14. What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is only slightly different, right? It's familiar enough to be recognizable, and skewed enough to give us pause.

Chang-rae Lee