Top 86 Salem's Quotes

#1. The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

Edmund Morgan

Salem's Quotes #98218
#2. Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

John George Nicolay

Salem's Quotes #101537
#3. 18And t Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was u priest of v God Most High.) 19And he blessed him and said, w Blessed be Abram by God Most High, x Possessor [2] of heaven and earth; 20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!

Anonymous

Salem's Quotes #115358
#4. Fears locked in small brains are much too large to pass through the orifice of the mouth.

Stephen King

Salem's Quotes #115759
#5. When I was a child, Haj Salem told me that answers can be found
in the sky if you look long and hard enough.

Susan Abulhawa

Salem's Quotes #116723
#6. I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake

Rose McGowan

Salem's Quotes #135893
#7. It was a strange experience to be looking out the window of an eighteenth-century Chinese house at a seventeenth-century colonial graveyard full of people in twenty-first-century Halloween costumes. Salem, guys.

J.W. Ocker

Salem's Quotes #193879
#8. We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.

Abdallah Salem El-Badri

Salem's Quotes #215972
#9. You can't move on, if you haven't forgiven yourself, yet.

Basma Salem

Salem's Quotes #242949
#10. A mafia could never kill an alliance. That's how you become safe from the enemy, you befriend them.

Basma Salem

Salem's Quotes #263153
#11. But this was Northern Ireland in 1981 which was slightly less conservative than, say, Salem in 1692

Adrian McKinty

Salem's Quotes #263458
#12. If i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?.

Jodi Picoult

Salem's Quotes #283286
#13. When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.

Gardner Dozois

Salem's Quotes #284485
#14. I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.

Henry David Thoreau

Salem's Quotes #303244
#15. they tremble and hide under the table when a local branch of ADL calls them 'anti-Semites'. Like the label of 'witch' in Salem, this word triggers a spasm wave in the target population.

Israel Shamir

Salem's Quotes #356199
#16. Every time she meets him, she feels like he was a new paper ready to be drawn. And she could clearly remember how the first time she met him, he was like a sketch paper filled with grey and blue and black, all mixed up together forming a confusing storm,

Basma Salem

Salem's Quotes #373393
#17. The world he thought he knew had become an odd thing, twisting time and purpose. But it had remained an unfair universe in the end.

Susan Catalano

Salem's Quotes #397184
#18. On Salem's Lot: " My favorite vampire story ever. I first read this 20 years ago, and I can still quote lines from it.
"You have been ill-used, Mr Bryant."
"I will see you sleep like the dead, teacher."
"The boy makes ten of you, false priest."
Fuck twilight. Seriously ...

Jay Kristoff

Salem's Quotes #401624
#19. Moonlight flooded in the windows and silvered the room, turning it into a lagoon of dreams

Stephen King

Salem's Quotes #424128
#20. You are the last person I want to kiss. The last woman I want in my bed. I want you to be the last girl that touches any and all parts of me, Salem, and that means so much more than a first.

Jay Crownover

Salem's Quotes #453518
#21. He wondered at the atrocities human kind was capable of committing. The majority of those housed below were ill, mentally or physically, not witches. Most were poor victims
the outcasts of society; or the opposite, people so blessed, others coveted their lives.

Brynn Chapman

Salem's Quotes #454742
#22. not all the witches live in Salem!

Cyndi Raye

Salem's Quotes #507085
#23. I feel like you and the past have been chasing me down ever since you walked into that shop, Salem." She didn't answer me but I noticed a little pink work its way into her dusky cheeks. "What are you going to do if I decide to let you catch me?

Jay Crownover

Salem's Quotes #507159
#24. The letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.

Jodi Picoult

Salem's Quotes #514486
#25. 'Salem's Lot," he read. "A novel by Stephen King." He looked up at Eddie, then at Jake. "Heard of him? Either of you? He's not from my time, I don't think." Jake

Stephen King

Salem's Quotes #521990
#26. Every now and then, i worry about people in the third world countries. and then i figure if they all started having sex, their lives would be considerably brighter.

Jodi Picoult

Salem's Quotes #556976
#27. A house can be replaced but never a lost life.

Sarah Salem

Salem's Quotes #577153
#28. It's not like they exactly agreed. They're just kinda silent about the whole thing," I say. "Group silence can be a death sentence. It was in Salem," he says.

Adriana Mather

Salem's Quotes #583490
#29. The Lord works in mysterious ways. What's true to one man, a wonder and a marvel, might not seem so to another, as God didn't intend it for him.

Katherine Howe

Salem's Quotes #587674
#30. At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

Herbert Hoover

Salem's Quotes #650507
#31. A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order.

Jodi Picoult

Salem's Quotes #670415
#32. The truth always arrive too late because it walks slower than lies. Truth crawls at a snail's pace.

Maryse Conde

Salem's Quotes #691771
#33. In the Salem of our peaceful hearts, the name of Jesus is great beyond compare: He has won our love, and He shall wear it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Salem's Quotes #709384
#34. Salem is such a cool little town that's very touristy. It's fun to walk around all the shops and get the feeling there.

Sheri Moon Zombie

Salem's Quotes #712093
#35. I'm not a politician, but ISIS is a problem, and this matter should be solved very quickly. This will affect existing production, it will affect investment, it will affect the behaviour of people. It will affect the area tremendously.

Abdallah Salem El-Badri

Salem's Quotes #713189
#36. Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

Thomas Carlyle

Salem's Quotes #751532
#37. He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

Arthur Miller

Salem's Quotes #756811
#38. To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else could an outbreak like the Salem witchcraft have occurred?

H.P. Lovecraft

Salem's Quotes #761952
#39. You're so seventeenth century.

Susan Catalano

Salem's Quotes #780959
#40. Sarah turned around and there standing just a few feet from her was the legend himself, and he was far from disappointing.

C.A. Pruit

Salem's Quotes #790199
#41. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

Arthur Miller

Salem's Quotes #816566
#42. I've heard you say my name in a lot of ways, Salem. Gotta say hearing you say it in bed when I'm about to eat you up is probably my favorite to date.

Jay Crownover

Salem's Quotes #826309
#43. Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.

Stacy Schiff

Salem's Quotes #862560
#44. Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.

Rob Zombie

Salem's Quotes #870834
#45. Just looking at Palin up on the podium doesn't impress me. She looks like a chief flight attendant on a Piedmont flight from Winston-Salem to Cleveland, with only the bag of almonds and the polyester kerchief missing from the picture. With

Matt Taibbi

Salem's Quotes #907713
#46. I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Carlisle Floyd

Salem's Quotes #925543
#47. Sparhawk had fallen into a nest of pirates.

Donna Thorland

Salem's Quotes #956647
#48. It just feels like meeting him again was like seeing a blank paper ready to be sketched, a different idea to be drawn.

Basma Salem

Salem's Quotes #957697
#49. Have you ever really held the hand of someone you love? Not just in passing, a loose link between you - but truly clasped, with the pulses of your wrists beating together and your fingers mapping the knuckles and nails like a cartographer learning a country by heart?

Jodi Picoult

Salem's Quotes #1013031
#50. Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.

Janet Montgomery

Salem's Quotes #1037560
#51. People believe a lot of weird stuff in Salem.

Adriana Mather

Salem's Quotes #1119708
#52. ye cannot, save in Salem, where they tell me the young girls breathe such musk, their sailor sweethearts smell them miles off shore, as though they were drawing nigh the odorous Moluccas instead of the Puritanic sands.

Herman Melville

Salem's Quotes #1126361
#53. Salem snorted. The Vamp basically told her, 'I'm in a weird place in me life right now, and I need some space.' Of course, he told her that by pointing a bloody sword at her whilst bellowing, 'I forsake you!' in front of the whole kingdom.

Kresley Cole

Salem's Quotes #1134441
#54. On Salem, you're right where you're supposed to be.

Kristen Ashley

Salem's Quotes #1137001
#55. My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the reunion with documents!

Stacy Schiff

Salem's Quotes #1140513
#56. We're all here. We're close to the truck, and we met Kenton, a fine citizen of Salem. We rescued Izzy and found our way through a very sad darkness, dangers that we knew from Izzy's Orion interpretation would be waiting for us. We're definitely on the right track.

Jonathan Friesen

Salem's Quotes #1193077
#57. Merry's mind devolved into chaos. Ideas evaded her. Words chased one another into meaningless jumbles. Her breath came in shallow gasps as the ghastly image of William's lifeless body twisting in the wind, solidified and held.

Susan Catalano

Salem's Quotes #1246175
#58. Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.

John George Nicolay

Salem's Quotes #1257324
#59. It turns out to be eminently useful to have a disgrace in your past; Salem endures not only as a metaphor but as a vaccine and a taunt. It glares at us when fear paralyzes reason, when we overreact or overcorrect, when we hunt down or deliver up the alien or seditious.

Stacy Schiff

Salem's Quotes #1274030
#60. Life is too kind to men, whatever their color.

Maryse Conde

Salem's Quotes #1302953
#61. Pigs after pigs, walking in group going on the way for the barracks, to be the first meal of the wolfs.
(Salem's Lot)

Deyth Banger

Salem's Quotes #1330005
#62. When a small group of people come together to relive the Salem witch hunts, God cries. For if anything is sorrowful to God, it is evil done in his name. When you find out you were not given the truth, how will you live with yourself?

Shannon L. Alder

Salem's Quotes #1341130
#63. If she'd been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.

John Updike

Salem's Quotes #1360987
#64. Everything was bright and white, even in the night.

Basma Salem

Salem's Quotes #1369894
#65. Above me soft footsteps, the sound through the ceiling of a teenager haunted by a door to the night. My cousin Maybonne lights up a Salem, blows ghosts to the darkness, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

Lynda Barry

Salem's Quotes #1373459
#66. By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.

Edmund Morgan

Salem's Quotes #1377325
#67. With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war as oddly similar to the Salem witch trials.

Joel Miller

Salem's Quotes #1384497
#68. I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

Anna Camp

Salem's Quotes #1393297
#69. You draw characters speaking loud and clear but you're not hearing them.

Basma Salem

Salem's Quotes #1410575
#70. If I do not do this thing, then it may go on and on. Nothing of the greater good comes without struggle and sacrifice in equal measure, be you man or woman, and in this way are we freed from tyranny.

Kathleen Kent

Salem's Quotes #1424980
#71. There's a bunch of Stephen King books I love. 'Salem's Lot' was always one of my favourites. 'It.' 'Needful Things.' Moving away from King, and 'Silence of the Lambs' is always a good choice.

Paul Cleave

Salem's Quotes #1441242
#72. Six days later, the president named a postmaster for New Salem, Illinois, a twenty-four-year-old lawyer who had lost a race for the state legislature. He was a Clay man, but the post was hardly major, and Abraham Lincoln was happy to accept the appointment.

Jon Meacham

Salem's Quotes #1484021
#73. This Melchizedek was the Canaanite King of Jerusalem before it was Jerusalem, when it was Urusalim (Salem for short). He was a Canaanite, a Jebusite, and a Black man.

Amber Greene

Salem's Quotes #1490340
#74. People, whatever religion or branch they belonged to, were noble - but only if they didn't let politics get in between and ruin things.

Sarah Salem

Salem's Quotes #1504070
#75. If you start having a society where people are policing their own thoughts, now we're back in Salem, Massachusetts, where literally, they didn't do anything for fun, and then that pressure built up and they all went nuts.

Mary Katharine Ham

Salem's Quotes #1525159
#76. Mary Sibley: So, love is to a woman what war is to a man: the most deadly thing they'll do. Only a fool runs quickly to war or love.

Salem

Salem's Quotes #1534042
#77. I followed the spiked iron fence around the church, 'First Church in Salem, Founded in 1629', the sign reads. The fence ends, and there's a big wooden trellis covered in vines.

Adriana Mather

Salem's Quotes #1585690
#78. If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and his play 'The Crucible' analysed the hearings in the context of a previous American mass psychosis, the Salem witch trials.

Jane Smiley

Salem's Quotes #1627211
#79. There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us.

Sarah Vowell

Salem's Quotes #1665939
#80. Only a small, supernatural figure remained at the scene of the crime.* He did resolve one mystery while in Salem: indeed the devil needs conscious human collusion to work evil.

Stacy Schiff

Salem's Quotes #1669959
#81. They aren't capable of doing this... look their thoughts, look how they run, look their faces... So far this tells everything about them,...
(Salem's Lot)

Deyth Banger

Salem's Quotes #1684124
#82. We might have been on the outside looking in at our own families and our own lives, but at least we could stand outside together.

Jay Crownover

Salem's Quotes #1773158
#83. Something terrible happened in Salem in 1692 . . . but it isn't what you think!

Suzy Witten

Salem's Quotes #1779080
#84. She was always like this, only moves when her mind and heart tells her to move, not doing what everyone demanded her to do.

Basma Salem

Salem's Quotes #1788358
#85. Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.

Alice Morse Earle

Salem's Quotes #1795882
#86. Holy shit! That's a vampire. He's writing a vampire novel. And I thought, this is the most tired cliche that anybody could dredge up out of the genre, and he just made it jump.

Peter Straub

Salem's Quotes #1868080

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