"Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul." ~ Thomas Paine
A Winter is Coming meme.
Winter Is Coming is Sean Bean as Ned Stark in HBO's Game of Thrones, delivering the words of House Stark. The full phrase - "Brace yourselves, winter is coming" - became a template for warning about anything predictable and inevitable: "Brace yourselves, the exam results are coming." It's the meme for seeing something annoying approaching and knowing there's no escape.