Top 35 The Price Of Salt Quotes
#1. I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a
single word: Home.
Mahmoud Darwish
#2. I'm not melancholic,' she protested, but the thin ice was under her feet again, the uncertainties. or was it that she always wanted a little more than she had, no matter how much she had?
Patricia Highsmith
#4. How indifferent he was to Carol after all, Therese thought. She felt he didn't see her, as he sometimes hadn't seen figures in rock or cloud formations when she had tried to point them out to him.
Patricia Highsmith
#5. I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame;
I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame;
But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves,
Where the rainbows play in the flying spray,
'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.
Eugene O'Neill
#6. As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.
Steven Pinker
#7. At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything?
Patricia Highsmith
#8. It was the seventh or eighth floor, she couldn't remember which. A streetcar crawled past the front of the hotel, and people on the sidewalk moved in every direction, with legs on either side of them, and it crossed her mind to jump.
Patricia Highsmith
#9. She probably had all the time in the world, Therese thought, probably did nothing all day but what she felt like doing.
Patricia Highsmith
#10. Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.
Michael Manley
#11. I'd had a little feeling of destiny. Because, you see, what I mean about affinities is true from friendships down to even the accidental glance at someone on the street-there's always a definite reason somewhere. I think even the poets would agree with me.
Patricia Highsmith
#12. Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
Bill Evans
#13. As president, Nixon imposed wage and price controls, created the Environmental Protection Agency, initiated race-based hiring schemes, signed SALT I with the Soviets and instituted rapprochement with the Red Chinese. All of this resulted in liberals ... despising him even more!
Ann Coulter
#15. She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their enemy, and suddenly what she and Carol had together seemed no longer love or anything happy but a monster between them, with each of them caught in a fist.
Patricia Highsmith
#16. With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy, I think, like all men at sea who live too close to each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon.
William Golding
#17. Venice manipulated markets by controlling production. In the late thirteenth century, wishing to raise the world market price, Venice had all saltworks in Crete destroyed and banned the local production of salt.
Mark Kurlansky
#19. Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'
'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.
Patricia Highsmith
#20. We can't stop hell from knocking at our door, but that doesn't mean we should stop living because we know it's coming." "I
Dannika Dark
#21. I looked at my spices again. Salt for protection, cinnamon to enhance psychic ability, and pepper to drive away evil. I figured I should start with the cinnamon.
My first impulse was to snort it.
Jordan Castillo Price
#22. Why do you ask The Rock stupid questions? Why are you an ugly hermaphrodite? Nobody knows, Kevin Kelly.
Dwayne Johnson
#24. They roared into the Lincoln Tunnel. A wild, inexplicable excitement mounted in Therese as she stared through the windshield. She wished the tunnel might cave in and kill them both, that their bodies might be dragged out together. She felt Carol glancing at her from time to time.
Patricia Highsmith
#26. If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.
Jamie Oliver
#27. We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.
Harold Innis
#28. She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?
Patricia Highsmith
#29. And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.
Patricia Highsmith
#30. Can God play a significant game with his own creature? Can any creator, even a limited one, play a significant game with his own creature?
Dan Simmons
#31. Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
Andy Goldsworthy
#32. I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.
Jackie Stewart
#33. The curse turned to grace when the hurt turned to faith.
DMX
#34. Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.
C.I. Scofield
#35. Is that a page from the dastardly villain's diary?" Maldynado asked. "One carelessly dropped that conveniently reveals the secret to destroying these vile artifacts?" "It's an invoice." "Villains get bills?
Lindsay Buroker
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