Table Quotes
1747 quotes by 1379 authors
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Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I talk to you…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who…
— John Steinbeck
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Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your…
— James Lileks
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I love animals to the extent that my home is my dog's home! Which means that nothing is too good for my Freckles-chairs, couches, beds.…
— Kate Smith
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The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city…
— Donna Tartt
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Try doing something different every day-like talking to the person at the next table to you in a restaurant, visiting a hospital, putting your foot…
— Paulo Coelho
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Nourishment is not just “nutrition.†Nourishment is the nutrients in the food, the taste, the aroma, the ambiance of the room, the conversation at the…
— Marc David
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On 'Lab Rats,' I read the script probably three or four times before we ever even do a table read because I want to be…
— Billy Unger
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And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make…
— George W. Bush
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I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.
— Roy Blunt
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I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still governments that could bring us…
— Al Gore
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No doubt a man may be saved, like the penitent thief, without having received the Lord's Supper. It is not a matter of absolute and…
— J C Ryle
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Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda to be tended…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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To work for better understanding among people, one does not have to be a former president sitting at a fancy conference room table. Peace can…
— Jimmy Carter
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Elizabeth was counting on Marco to keep cousin Mary occupied until after the board meeting was over. A piece of cheese might catch a mouse,…
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
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I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other…
— Joseph Addison
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