Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried…

I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,…

— Henry Adams

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be…

— Anonymous

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store,…

— Joyce Meyer

“Ten years ago, he was the hard­work­ing salt of the earth. All he want­ed was to go to Heav­en. Sit­ting here to­day, ev­ery­thing that…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I've been more conscious of my salt intake, sugar intake, making sure I'm not eating as many processed foods.

— Monica Denise Brown

I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the…

— Dylan Thomas

I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.

— Daniel Radcliffe

With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of…

— Jose Saramago

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…

— Harper Lee

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the…

— Eric Hoffer

“She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above.”

— George R R Martin

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

— Charlaine Harris

Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service,…

— Percy Dearmer

After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream,…

— Maeve Binchy

I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky...

— Billy Collins