Your cold blood cannot be worked into a fever; your veins are full of ice water; but mine are boiling, and the sight of such chillness makes them dance.
Emily Brontë
Related I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood. KATE CHOPIN The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limi... JAMES A. MICHENER I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and... ALEX KAPRANOS Hot water makes stress, makes you embarrassed… cold makes you to refresh, calm, relax… but mainl... DEYTH BANGER The nerve of them makes your blood boil, DON GRAHAM You can’t be friends with someone you have feelings for. It’ll just be a constant reminder of wh... JAIME REED Be a master of yourself. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It really requires ice in your veins and good conviction. BRUCE SHERMAN Alan's a great young rider, he's just nervous. In these races you need somebody with ice water in th... ERNIE PARAGALLO In the cold, all the blood rushes to your core to protect your heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and bra... LEWIS GORDON PUGH Quite alone both as a novel and as a piece of terror-literature stands the famous Wuthering Heights ... H.P. LOVECRAFT Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be ... NELSON MANDELA Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Eyes are the mirror of your mind. Whatever you see, you see in your reflection. DEBASISH MRIDHA Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue... JAMES LIND Don't be superior. Everyone drinks blood. Blood is a word that means alive. You can do without almos... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka! FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They’re in everything you do. They’re ... CASSANDRA CLARE The main requirement is one minute of boiling at a full rolling boil. Start timing when the water re... GAIL ANDREWS To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhy... MICHAEL JACKSON Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki... BARBARA KINGSOLVER When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing to... ALEXANDER GORDON SMITH Do you know the feeling you get when you are awakened in the middle of a dream? The dream story is s... SHANNON HALE An enemy is like boiling water in a pot on the stove whose button may sometimes be in your hands. VIKRANT PARSAI It was ice water in those veins. I could sense lots and lots of adrenaline, but I didn't sense nerve... BEN HEPPNER There are no sure answers for ice being safe. The general standards for safe ice are a good rule of ... JAKE HOHL Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probab... NATHAN MYHRVOLD You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line. JAMES C. DOBSON You are the architect of your life. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Water is such a lifesaver into which we cannot breathe but without taking it into us we cannot live MUNIA KHAN You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul CHRISTINA PERRI Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a fami... CHARLES EASTMAN Ice dance may look simple, but there's nothing simple about it. That's especially true in the compul... DON BRADNER If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gra... JOHN NIVEN Blood is thicker than water, but both of them DRIP, anyone can turn into an enemy. FELICIA WAY When your mortality is threatened, it gets your priorities in order. I think, 'It's just modern danc... DANIAL SHAPIRO These are two adversaries who dispute about their Lord; then (as to) those who disbelieve, for them ... QURAN Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fi... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA Donate your blood from your heart to save life. Life will donate you hearts full of love, blood and ... MUNIA KHAN The roots that weave up my right arm and onto my neck are my way of connecting with the earth: the e... JEFF HARDY Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don't go into yours, you d... DIRTY DANCING One day I shall find you...When you touch me I shall shiver...When your lips shall touch mine, my he... ESMERALDA MORALES One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind ... SAMUEL HAHNEMANN One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind ... SAMUEL HAHNEMANN Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false p... OG MANDINO Warm your soul with positive thoughts. Otherwise you're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your ... LILY CHATTERJEE Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the go... PASCALE PETIT Bleed a cold but feast a fever. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I m... ROBERT JAY LIFTON Waitress: "And to drink?" Artemis: "Spring water. Irish, if you have it. And no ice, please. As... EOIN COLFER I'm proud of all your achievement. You've worked hard for them. I'm proud of your looks and your int... PAM BROWN ...[T]here should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, t... ANNE LAMOTT Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud. RICHARD STRAUSS Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your per... MARTHA BECK Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When you are the central character in a seemingly boiling pit of “busy-ness” the time will come ... TONY CURL Are you a victim of your failures? Don't be! Study them, be curious about them, and turn them into l... JOHN M SHEEHAN Water, milk, juices and even some foods contain a lot of fluid. Any foods that will melt, such as ge... JULIE RAEDER SCHUMACHER No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro,... EDMONIA LEWIS (Andrew:) I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But
what's your jest?
(Maria:) A dr... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face... AMY IRVING A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge... JON RONSON Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta... CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam. CAMERON CONAWAY Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood th... GEORG BUCHNER I promise you that the same stuff galaxies are made of, you are. The same energy that swings planets... KAMAL RAVIKANT My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice. SHAWN ASHMORE What actually makes people happy is full engagement. You are most alive when working at the limit of... BILL MCKIBBEN Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think i... CHARLOTTE BRONTë What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted an... FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I promise you that the same stuff galaxies are made of, you are. The same energy that swings planets... KAMAL RAVIKANT When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fest... T.F. HODGE That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don'... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the con... RACHEL CAINE We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL You're a throwback." "To what?" Jess considered this. Hi-tech at work, Emily was paradoxic... ALLEGRA GOODMAN Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. ANITA DEFRANTZ Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them. ALBERT SCHWEITZER People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth ... AMY GRANT Blood is boiling, and justly, ARIEL SHARON Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. MARTHA GRAHAM Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Be the hero of your own story.
You are born to turn your mess into a message and the test into a tes... FARSHAD ASL Snow is water, and ice is water, and water is water, these three are one JOSEPH DARE History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Our supply of ice and water is exceeding the demand right now. The ice and water will not be wasted. BOB ANDERSON Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves. HORACE BUSHNELL Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves HORACE BUSHNELL As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only ex... WAYNE DYER You are the leader here. Obviiusly your skills are far superior to mine. I don't think I could fit i... CHRISTINE FEEHAN Your net worth determines how valuable you are in the sight of men SUNDAY ADELAJA It's you,” David says, “our queen with your crown, going into some body of water where we cannot... ANNIE FISHER If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
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ANNE BRONTë I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The word book acted as a transient stimulus CHARLOTTE BRONTë I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive ... ANNE BRONTë You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take... ANNE BRONTë Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of t... CHARLOTTE BRONTë As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conce... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Evening Solace The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sea... CHARLOTTE BRONTë A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he admired in othe... ANNE BRONTë So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m... CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevat... ANNE BRONTë Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and ... ANNE BRONTë How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our o... ANNE BRONTë I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And w... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort... CHARLOTTE BRONTë My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-b... CHARLOTTE BRONTë To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither so... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeeme... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force! CHARLOTTE BRONTë Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love... CHARLOTTE BRONTë And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? M... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a n... CHARLOTTE BRONTë And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charm... ANNE BRONTë I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I deligh... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and s... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivi... CHARLOTTE BRONTë What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same the... CHARLOTTE BRONTë To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. CHARLOTTE BRONTë And what is hell? Can you tell me that?” “A pit full of fire.” “And should you lik... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird, no net ensnares me. CHARLOTTE BRONTë