Sweltering Quotes

#1. It's midnight, it's sweltering, and I might be high on Vicodin, but that guy - that guy right over there - that's him.
The him.

Stephanie Perkins

#2. The sweltering darkness and vast weight of the surrounding silence seemed as eternal as death itself.

Terry Goodkind

#3. To be truly stylish (as opposed to merely "in style", which is the opposite) is to be unabashedly one's self, without reference to the fashions and demands of a sweltering crowd.

Michael Harris

#4. The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering in the heat of injustice and oppression, will one day be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. All around were horror, and thick gloom, and a black sweltering desert of ebony.

Edgar Allan Poe

#8. I still felt hot. Like I was sweltering. Like I was on fire. The kind of fire that couldn't be put out by water. The kind that couldn't be put out the way I was used to fighting other fires. She was the only one who could douse this kind of fire.

Kat Austen

#9. And who the hell came up with jeans? Tamani continued darkly. Heavy, sweltering fabric? You're seriously telling me the race that invented the internet couldn't create a fabric better than denim? Please!

Aprilynne Pike

#10. Let a sweltering heat... love... rose up relentlessly.

Sooyeon Won

#11. I read to escape to a more interesting world, not to be locked up in a sweltering prison and find myself vicariously standing among people who are tortured beyond the limits of sanity.

Amy Tan

#12. I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me.

Virginia Woolf

#13. The heat from the lava was sweltering, and the air was hot and humid. Flames rose from the ground, as if the whole place was a giant BBQ pit. It was so difficult to breathe. I gasped for air, for normal air. As I stood there and looked around, sweat dripped continuously from my brow. Then

Steve The Noob

#14. in the sweltering attic, and

Elin Hilderbrand

#15. just before Todd leaves for Greeley. These stomach pains also graduate to violent fevers to where he would be freezing and sweltering at the same time. Norma, a family friend, is looking after Colton at her home while Sonja is teaching a class at Imperial

Omar Elbaga

#16. My skin tingles as I step into the music,
give in to the icy thrill of pleasure
that spreads through me whenever I dance,
the pleasure of leaping into a cool lake on a
sweltering day.

Padma Venkatraman

#17. Warped asphalt, marred with shallow potholes and buckled with frost heaves - the scars of harsh winters and brief sweltering summers - unfolded under a shock of headlights like a story she could recite.

Mira Gibson

#18. Finally, at two minutes to three, in the sweltering heat of a Mesopotamian summer afternoon, I crossed the no-man's land into Syria.

William Dalrymple

#19. So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out of their homelands by Christians and their cold-iron swords.

Patricia Briggs

#20. He smelled like a sultry summer storm - cool, refreshing rain, sweltering, hot wind, and charged, electric thunder - all rolled up into one extremely enticing vampire being.

Ada Adams

#21. Liberals in Hollywood can't stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television.

Ben Shapiro

#22. England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

Albert Bushnell Hart

#23. Very often in Chekhov, where he exhibits a little bit of human behavior that you recognize as true, you give a little laugh. It's like a reflex.

Tom Stoppard

#24. The quest of the alchemists to turn lead into gold is a metaphor for our attempts to turn the base metal of ourselves, that person hooked on consumerism, filled with angst and ambition, into the gold of what we can be and really are.

Chloe Thurlow

#25. If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That's what contemporary philosophers do.

Ljupka Cvetanova