Oppressive Heat Quotes

#1. Syldor was not a land of oppressive rules, roles, and labels. Here, love and power were open to, for, and between all; woman or man, rich or poor. What mattered was the sharpness of your mind, the speed of your blade, and the heat of your touch.

Natalia Marx

#2. If his body and his essence remain apart,
Burn his body, but spare this, his heart.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Good historical fiction can bring those sights, smells, and even the oppressive heat so alive, you feel that you are there,

Erin Brown Conroy

#4. Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.

William Shakespeare

#5. The need exists. I serve the need. After me the need will exist and the need will be served. Let me do well what has and will be done as well by others. Let me take on the role and then let it go.

Marge Piercy

#6. In just 15 minutes you can treat yourself to a delicious and nutritious Spanish omelet. It is easy to prepare and tastes amazing! This recipe will make one omelet.

Charity Wilson

#7. Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.

Merrill Markoe

#8. What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant
gone.

Alice Sebold

#9. October had tremendous possibility. The summer's oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles.

Sarah Guillory

#10. Disease, which had reduced the number to less than fifty persons, subsided; the oppressive heat lessened; and Indian crops of peas, corn, and beans began to mature.

Charles E. Hatch

#11. No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout the necessity for spreading people through time of day without frustrating its potential for generating diversity.

Jane Jacobs

#12. Open your mind, this is only a song,
But the way to be happy is to admit you were wrong.

Matt Haig

#13. You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy.

Roger Bannister

#14. If any religion allows you to torture animals or sacrifice an animal for the sake of procuring god's favor, then that is not a religion. It is an absurd practice of inhumanity.

Debasish Mridha

#15. - Bucky dear, his wife warned, you're slurring your words. - Slurring is the cursive of speech, I observed.

Amor Towles

#16. When you con for revenge, you might not know when you've won.

Karina Halle

#17. Awakened by the oppressive midday heat, Zach opened his eyes to see a small blue and tan lizard doing what looked like push-ups about a foot away from his face.

Pamela Clare

#18. August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.

Henry Rollins

#19. Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.

James Mark Baldwin

#20. We used to live in a world where the price of resources came down steadily, and now the world has changed. You have a great mismatch between finite resources and exponential population growth.

Jeremy Grantham

#21. Chinchilla is said to be more chic than mink, though personally it reminds me of unborn burlap.

Patrick Dennis