Salt Quotations | Page 4

Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.

And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?

You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.

A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them.

I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt.

People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's vulnerability.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.

If I could only weep,I think sweet help with my salt tears would come,To ease the cruel pain that is so dumb,And will not let me sleep.

I can't be disappointed with the Games as whole. It was tougher than Salt Lake, closer.

I don't think anyone can possibly imagine the impact these hurricanes have had on the region and on production agriculture unless they see it firsthand, ... We saw fields flattened by winds and inundated by salt water. We heard accounts of homes swept from their foundations and we saw trees broken like toothpicks. Of course, the full story can only be told by those whose lives and livelihoods have been forever altered by these storms.

I am absolutely clear that the scandal of junk food served every day in school canteens must end. So today I can announce that I will ban low-quality reprocessed bangers and burgers high in fat, salt and sugar being served in schools, from next September.

For the most part, I think players should take life with a grain of salt and focus a little more on the opportunities at hand. I take bad beats pretty easily because I've seen far worse beats in Third-World countries.

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

...We die, we turn, we are reborn as we deserve to be reborn, based on our doings in this world." Will looked down at his bitten nails. "I will probably be reborn as a slug that someone salts.

Do you have a sleeping bag?” I stared at him. “No. I lost it in the great salt-dip of ’06.

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.

The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.

I'm a very un-excitable person. I always take things with a grain of salt, I'm always very even-keeled, and I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Any coach worth his salt will take a look at that and say, 'I'll take my chances with that'

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

The salt blowing off the sea makes the air feel textured and heavy.

After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt,

Disappointment is often the salt of life.

If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.

A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

They may have salt, sugar, and fat on their side, but we, ultimately, have the power to make choices. After all, we decide what to buy. We decide how much to eat.

You’re not worth the salt in my tears or the brain power it would take me to even conjure your face. (Aiden)

People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.

An umeboshi plum is a little Japensese salt plum. The best thing for motion sickness is to take one of these plums . . . and tape it to your belly button. I'm not kidding you. This really, really works.

Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

Salt. Wound. Together at last.

Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.

A woman without paint is like food without salt.

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.

You can't expect any return phone calls. I think the wound has been opened, and salt has been poured into it from all the media. The Times has to prove themselves to these three people.

A key question is whether this is all driven by our high dietary salt intake. One hypothesis is that high salt intake drives blood pressure throughout life, and early treatment and control of blood pressure may profoundly affect longevity and the quality of life.

You want to beat them on the court, or on the field. But after that, there is a strong fraternity of guys that really bond together, that look out for the betterment of all coaches. I would honestly say that nobody in our profession who's worth his salt enjoys seeing somebody else suffer, or their family suffer due to a termination.

You won't have to pay subsidies. And these fields could probably become a healthy salt marsh, rather than poor farmland.

And it seems like it would go without saying, not to put your salt in the middle of a monitoring site.

The eating was one of the most horrible things. Excepting the first two days after I entered the asylum, there was no salt for the food.

The company's salt acquisitions are paying off big time thanks to the winter weather.

The confidence that coach (John) Ellinger has in me and the organization's desire to make me Real Salt Lake's inaugural player is inspiring,

The circumstances of the accident were tragic enough. All this does is just rub salt into these wounds.

As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt.

And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

Wonder is the salt of the earth.

Risk is the salt and sugar of life.

What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt.

Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.

A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.

It formed into small drops on his weather beaten features, drops that rolled down his cheeks. Strangely, some of them tasted like salt.

Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me—

You end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.

Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.

When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on.

Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.

Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt.

The media, is media. You always have to take the media with a grain of salt. You can't believe everything you read.

My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.

We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.

Lot, who said to his wife as she was being turned into a pillar of salt, Stop shaking! Never got a dinner!

I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.

I like interacting with fans and I like hearing what they say, but you have to take it all with a grain of salt.

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

Young people think they know it all, but a lot of old salts around know they don't.

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read.

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat.

As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, / With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?

Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, / Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man

I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline... I firmly believe that any man's finest hour-this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear--is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle -- victorious.

Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body - to risk his well-being - to risk his life - in a great cause

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?