#chilling

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#chilling #come #contentious #does #lap

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#compete #funny #group #leadership #people

Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#chilling #dinner #family #murder #family

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#body #chilling #cold #enemy #happy

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#cold #cold war #commanded #crushing #curtain

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#face #fitting #gloomy #god #look

I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all. ↗

— Vernon A. Walters

#chilling #going #i #most #should

I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?' ↗

— Wayne Wonder

#always #am #ask #chilling #come

The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#chilling #imagery #personification #beauty

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#men