“People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness.” PeopleThinkingKindGuyTalkingImagineColdTruth IsWoundsBunchKillersHeartedSealsHeartlessToughnessBrainwashedMental ToughnessCold BloodedKind HeartedJovial Author:Howard E. Wasdin
“Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.” PeopleKnowsFeelsShouldMayFactsPoetColdTruth IsFancyFlatsWrapsFieryHawks Author:Stevie Smith
“All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.” HardResultsColdTruth IsMethodReachingCreating Beauty Book:Notes of Thought Source: Notes of Thought
“Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.” ThinkingStatesFacesColdTruth IsEnvironmentalDenialFuelAddictFossilsTurkeysFossil FuelCold Turkey Book:A Man Without a Country Source: A Man Without a Country
“Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind.” WorldWantMindSaidBigsGrowsConsciousnessSunClearOne ThingThis WorldColdTruth IsQuietCreaturesSittingCleanHealDryShakesLakesJimmyOregonTruth Be Told Book:Miss Wyoming Source: Miss Wyoming