Cold Quotes - Page 10
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
David Quammen (2012). “Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company
Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.
Darrell Huff (2010). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.260, Pan Macmillan
Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.98, Courier Corporation
Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.
Address at the unveiling of his portrait in the South Carolina Legislature, Columbia, S.C., 16 Apr. 1947. The term cold war was popularized by Baruch's speech and by Walter Lippmann's 1947 book with that title. An earlier use was by George Orwell writing in the Tribune, 19 Oct. 1945 (see Orwell for this and still older antecedents). Baruch credited speechwriter Herbert Bayard Swope with supplying him with this phrase in 1946 (in a draft speech about United States - Soviet relations). See Orwell
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
Bernard Baruch's Speech before the Senate's Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program, 1948.
Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.15, Nayika Publishing
Barbara Olson (2003). “The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House”, p.20, Regnery Publishing
It is a rare photographer who can take a detached, cold-blooded view of his work.
Arthur Rothstein (1965). “Photojournalism: Pictures for Magazines and Newspapers”
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
Abigail Adams letter to John Adams, August 5, 1776.
The Sinews of Peace, delivered 5 March 1946 Westminster College, Fulton Missouri
William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.289
Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.24, Stanford University Press