“ In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away. ”
- Lord Hailsham- Copy
- 700
“ I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted. ”
- The Reverend Jesse Jackson- Copy
- 484
“ Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. ”
- Salman Rushdie- Copy
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“ Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ I am visible — see this Indian face — yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't. We haven't. ”
- Gloria Anzaldúa- Copy
- 4K
“ The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions… . Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world… … ”
- Hector St. John de Crevecoeur- Copy
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“ I remember I really unnerved this particular teacher, who after reading some of my work, looked at me like I was one of the Children of the Damned. Like I had just scrunched up my face and anger-melted a wall with my suddenly blood-red blazing eyes, and might turn on the God fearin' townsfolk if she didn't keep her voice in a nice even monotone. ”
- Kim Elizabeth- Copy
- 2K
“ Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues. ”
- Craig Claiborne- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat's cheese…get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
- 445
“ Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation, one glance, one hurt, and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand. ”
- Gloria Naylor- Copy
- 3.1K
“ If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold — billions of dollars worth — he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity. ”
- Charles F. Bunning- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars… ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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