Melting quotes
77 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"That's the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break. But you would have to be an idiot to believe that. The Constitution is not a living organism; it is a legal document. It says something and doesn't say other things."
"It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one."
"Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize."
"Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world."
"Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself."
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"Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had butchered five hundred of your own men out of arrogant carelessness, we'd be melting the bronze already."
"People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness."
"I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature."
"And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set."
"Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me."
"Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around."
"I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life."
"Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life."
"And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face."
"I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life."
"I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks."
"Whatever enjoyment I might have had at the time would disappear overnight like snow melting on a warm roof."
"Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot."
"The jewel of the lard is right around the kidneys. But this is a fat that has a very specific crystalline formation and a high melting point."
"Thy dangerous glances make women of men; new-born, we are melting into nature again."
"Einstein was wrong! I"M the speed of like CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW!"
"Melting of the huge Antarctic glaciers, proceeding more rapidly than anticipated, threatens a rise in sea level that will drive tens of millions from the low-lying plains of Bangladesh alone, with disastrous consequences elsewhere."
