Table Quotes
1747 quotes by 1379 authors
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Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying…
— O. Henry
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The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the…
— William Blum
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Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table…
— Daniel H. Pink
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If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.
— Elizabeth Warren
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I find weddings really boring. They give speeches, your aunt kisses you on the cheek, and you're at a boring table. But it's different when…
— Isla Fisher
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Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.
— A.C. Grayling
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
— Adrienne Rich
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Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the land.…
— Michael Pollan
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I have a New Year's tradition. I lay all my travel dreams on the table, sort them out, prioritize, and begin the process of turning…
— Rick Steves
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Dont put the sheep on the table.
— Gene Wilder
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Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based…
— Bill Moyers
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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief…
— Adam Gopnik
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The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.
— Michael J. Fox
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The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak,…
— Christine Pelosi
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When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the…
— Sara Blakely
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A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character…
— J. G. Holland
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Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
— Amy Vanderbilt
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Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession we…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.
— Henri Nouwen
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It's always a good idea to sit at the fun table.
— Esther Hicks
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