Knife Of Ice Quotes

#1. ...I watched the day slip into night, noting the wondrous tonal transformations of the sunset on its dimmer switch, how blood-orange can shade imperceptibly into ice-blue on the knife-edge of the horizon, listening to the sea's interminable call for silence - shh, shh, shh.

William Boyd

#2. Life is a worthwhile journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. The study of human institutions is always a search for the most tolerable imperfections.

Richard A. Epstein

#4. We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.

Eugenio Montale

#7. You already have everything you need to be a long-distance athlete. It's mindset, not miles, that separates those who do from those who dream.

John Bingham

#8. As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the world safer because of what we did tonight?' We knew the answer: No.

Jeanne Woodford

#9. When you think of technology that gets people excited - long lines at stores, enthusiastic reviews in the blogosphere, passionate evangelists - the first thing to come to mind probably isn't thermostats. Then, along came Nest.

Ryan Holmes

#10. One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it's a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction, that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas?

Kelly Williams Brown

#11. Love set you going like a fat gold watch.

Sylvia Plath

#12. If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Robert Frost