Top 94 Salisbury Quotes
#1. IF YOU BELIEVE THE DOCTORS," Salisbury once remarked, "nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.
Margaret MacMillan
#3. Er, Nick can see illusions, so he'll be going into Salisbury. Who - ?"
Now there was a question hanging in the car like very awkward air freshener.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#4. Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace
but a peace I hope with honour.
Benjamin Disraeli
#5. There was Arctic John, a businessman from Salisbury who doesn't hold water, Bruce Knott, a social worker from Cumberland who spends his lunch hour picking his bum, and Judith Glycerine, the reformation pig.
St John Morris
#6. Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they spin'.
Joseph Chamberlain
#7. Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards ... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.
Francis Maude
#8. Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.
Ronald Knox
#9. Adam [Sandler] is a good basketball player, so he is a natural athlete, he worked with Sean Salisbury to make his footwork and delivery smooth, and he did a great job.
Bill Goldberg
#10. Just received western union tellagram via carrier pigieon from mexican cousin Juan, Apparently he just got hired by wwe ... And would like me to watch his first match tonight in salisbury md, I'll be there.
John Cena
#11. Taking notes at a pub in Salisbury, I was mistaken for a health inspector!
Sarah Rees Brennan
#12. I've never seen Salisbury steak on a restaurant menu. It's only in frozen dinners. Is there something we should know about that? What IS Salisbury steak anyway? And where do they hunt or harvest the salisburies?
Kelli Jae Baeli
#13. Then was the monument called "Stonehenge," which stands, as all men know, upon the plain of Salisbury to this very day.
Knowles James Knowles
#15. The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless of human sacrifice, runs through the whole of Russian history
Harrison Salisbury
#16. I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
Harrison Salisbury
#17. I think that it is a great achievement to put a person on the moon. But to put a person on the earth-that is even more.
Harrison Salisbury
#18. We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.
John Of Salisbury
#19. We're not Lormerians, with their temples and their living goddesses, and their creepy royal family. We're people of science, and reason.
Melinda Salisbury
#20. Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football ... Baseball is a green dream that happens on summer nights in safe places in unsafe cities.
Luke Salisbury
#21. Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.
Luke Salisbury
#22. One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
Lord Salisbury
#23. Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.
John Of Salisbury
#24. But I want you," he smiles at me. "Not just to make me a king. I've always wanted you. Despite it all, you are still the bride I would choose. I do choose you.
Melinda Salisbury
#25. Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.
John Of Salisbury
#26. Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
#27. I am not cunning...I'm good at seeing around obstacles is all.
Melinda Salisbury
#28. The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
Harrison Salisbury
#30. By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.
Harrison Salisbury
#31. Fortune favors the bold." I smile weakly.
"So does death," she counters immediately. "The craven tend to live much longer than the heroic.
Melinda Salisbury
#32. We're to be married. Does it matter if I permit it?"
"To me it does, yes," says Merek. "And I imagine you, like me, appreciate the illusion of having a choice, even when illusion is all it is.
Melinda Salisbury
#33. Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It's bad enough accounting for the origin of such things once, but the thought of producing them several times according to the modern synthetic theory makes my head swim
Frank B. Salisbury
#34. No one can be certain where a nation which spans two continents, whose history begins in the faint traces of early civilization, a nation now struggling to find a new and valid philosophy of existence, will be propelled by the transcendental forces of the nuclear age.
Harrison Salisbury
#35. That's the trouble with knowing things: you can't un-know them. Once you let yourself look at them, or say them aloud, they become real.
Melinda Salisbury
#36. Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.
John Of Salisbury
#37. High in the Tower of Love, the last remaining tower of Tallith, he rests on a bier, not living, not dead. He doesn't age, or change, needs no sustenance. He sleeps. He waits
Melinda Salisbury
#38. Why do I matter to you?" I say, my voice breaking.
"You don't."
"Then why are you doing this?"
"Because I can. Because I slept for five hundred years and now I want some sport.
Melinda Salisbury
#39. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Lord Salisbury
#40. My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head and that's it. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am.
Harrison Salisbury
#41. And that, my girl, is the secret. Quake all you must on the inside. But on the outside you must be stone. And you never know; with enough practice it might become the truth.
Melinda Salisbury
#43. I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.
Harrison Salisbury
#44. In every fairy tale there is a kernel of truth, and that is the truth of this one. For him, I am poison. I am his death. And I will deliver.
Melinda Salisbury
#45. Enough. I don't have time for this; self-pity's a luxury that I can't afford.
Like bread. Or pride.
Enough, Errin. There's work to do. Get up.
Melinda Salisbury
#46. It is not until you draw something, whether it is an object, a building or an activity, that you really begin to understand it.
Martin Salisbury
#47. I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort without one.
Harrison Salisbury
#48. Were you disappointed?"
She takes a deep breath, looking down at her hands. "My heart was. My head wasn't. Most days I'm at war with myself. My head wins, usually. And for that I'm glad.
Melinda Salisbury
#49. People don't forget what it is to be loved. No matter how young or old you are, or for how long you had it, you always remember what it is to feel loved.
Melinda Salisbury
#51. Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
#53. Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.
Lord Salisbury
#54. That's the problem with fairy tales, they change with the telling.
Melinda Salisbury
#55. I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
Lord Salisbury
#56. Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
Harrison Salisbury
#58. Scarecrow queen. Nothing but a dupe, alone in a field, hoping to keep the crows at bay.
Melinda Salisbury
#59. I can see the things he doesn't say, because they're written all over him.
Melinda Salisbury
#60. If you haven't picked up on this yet, Disney loves training. Disney will sometimes find any excuse to train a bunch of cast members, whether they've been on the payroll for years or have just been hired.
Annie Salisbury
#61. Forgive me again." He lifts the carafe and refreshes his goblet. "What happened to those two children who laughed at dandelion fuzz?" he says softly. "Are they gone forever, do you think?
Melinda Salisbury
#63. I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
#64. It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
#65. Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth
John Of Salisbury
#66. If I come to you, I want it to be because I am choosing you, for no reason other than that. I don't want for to ever doubt it.
Melinda Salisbury
#67. Industry cannot flow unless cpaital is confident, and capital will not be confident as long as it fears that Parliament will meddle with it and walk off with its profits.
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess Of Salisbury
#68. You're here," he says, and his voice is like sunshine, like honey, it's warm and rich and moreish. "I'm so very glad." Where Silas's voice is spikes and edges, every word a warning, this man's voice is smooth, velvety and beckoning.
Melinda Salisbury
#70. Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.
John Of Salisbury
#71. If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come into being by chance mutations.
Frank B. Salisbury
#72. Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?
Harrison Salisbury
#73. Tex Rickard started his career staging boxing matches for Nome's miners, then moved on to New York and built Madison Square Garden, becoming one
Gay Salisbury
#74. There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.
Harrison Salisbury
#76. It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that are gone by than to the controversies which these parties have actually to decide.
Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess Of Salisbury
#77. Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.
John Of Salisbury
#78. The common people say, that physicians are the class
of people who kill other men in the most polite and
courteous manner.
John Of Salisbury
#79. We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
#81. A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.
John Of Salisbury
#83. I've learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now I'm alone and I've never been so content.
Melinda Salisbury
#85. You're not here for a long time, just a good time and Insiders' Guides show you how
Yvonne Salisbury
#87. When will I be sure?"
"Sure of what?"
"Of me. Of who I am. Of what I'm here for. When will I know?"
"Never. You never will. No matter what happens. You will always have those moments of doubt and you will always make mistakes.
Melinda Salisbury
#88. Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of characters, full of improbable events, anecdotes, folklore and numbers.
Luke Salisbury
#89. How could there be different Gods, Lief?"
"I don't believe there are any at all," he says quietly. "But I believe there are men and women whose lives are made easier by believing someone is watching over them.
Melinda Salisbury
#90. Burn all the food, and people will starve, weaken, and turn on one another. Destroy the temples and their acolytes, and the people will have nowhere to turn, no sanctuary, no charity. No hope.
Melinda Salisbury
#91. Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
Harrison Salisbury
#92. ... but for now it's too great a pleasure to stay in my own cottage, with my own books, and do exactly what I want to do.
Melinda Salisbury
#93. We can in fact only define a weed, mutatis mutandis, in terms of the well-known definition of dirt - as matter out of place. What we call a weed is in fact merely a plant growing where we do not want it.
Edward James Salisbury
#94. I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.
Harrison Salisbury
