Remark about the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Reykjavík, Iceland, quoted by James Reston, 'The New York Times (6 July 1986)
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)
“Too much SALT is bad for your health.”
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Context: Another way is to acquiesce and to give in, to resign yourself to the oppression. Some people do that. They discover the difficulties of the wilderness moving into the promised land, and they would rather go back to the despots of Egypt because it’s difficult to get in the promised land. And so they resign themselves to the fate of oppression; they somehow acquiesce to this thing. But that too isn’t the way because non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
“If you don't think too good, don't think too much.”
As quoted in The Gigantic Book of Baseball Quotations (2007) edited by Wayne Stewart, p. 360
“Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.”
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
“There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.”
KGNU benefit at the University of Colorado at Boulder, April 5, 2003 (context: João Goulart) http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/fscm2/contentviewer.php?content_id=299
Quotes 2000s, 2003
“Adulthood isn’t an award they’ll give you for being a good child.”
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
Context: Adulthood isn’t an award they’ll give you for being a good child. You can waste … years, trying to get someone to give that sort of respect to you, as though it were some sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just … take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, "I’m sorry you feel like that", and walk away.
“It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?”
Source: Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
