Floes Quotes

#1. We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.

Christopher McDougall

#2. We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.

Ian McEwan

#3. Enough, I shall be understood in ten years by people who will be doing what you do today. Then my geysers will be known, my ice floes will be seen, the secret of adulterating my poisons will have been learned, the games of my soul will be revealed.

Antonin Artaud

#4. Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift toward the morning light of remembrance.

Tan Twan Eng

#5. Watching the ice-floes dance together on the black water.

Clive Barker

#6. In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#7. I saw the shadows of the bears before I saw the bears themselves: huge they were, and pale, made of the pages of fierce books: poems ancient and modern prowled the ice floes in bear-shape, filled with words that could wound with their beauty.

Neil Gaiman

#8. Shivering, she would lie awake imagining her veins sluggish with frozen blood, ice crystals weaving a coral-like shining net around her heart. Her dreams were full of black seas and ice floes and frozen lakes ...

Cassandra Clare

#9. And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?

Diana Gabaldon

#10. Choosing the criteria for choosing

Nick Bostrom

#11. The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

Horatio Nelson

#12. Am I living?' ... I forgot myself, and sank into dim and watery oblivion.

Annie Dillard

#13. Time will say nothing but I told you so ...

W. H. Auden

#14. It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.

Hal Higdon

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Julia Reed

#16. A leapord never changes his stripes.

Al Gore

#17. I want to say, embrace your sexuality, own it, be confident, but you don't have to show everything. Respect yourself, and make others respect you.

Liz Goldwyn

#18. The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.

Jean Paul Gaultier

#19. Lear's daughters and their loathsome husbands are all deservedly slaughtered for their ill treatment of an aged ruler (one of the reasons that tragedy remains so huge in Asia)

Boris Johnson

#20. The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

Herman Wouk

#21. Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.

Robin Sharma