Table Quotes
1747 quotes by 1379 authors
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A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close the gap between…
— Pope Francis
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In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two…
— Louis Pasteur
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The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special…
— Raul Julia
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What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively,…
— H. L. Mencken
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Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I'd give…
— Daniel Dennett
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When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they…
— Cynthia Nixon
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Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the…
— David Lammy
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Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.
— Amarillo Slim
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We have the most skillful, firecest, and certainly the most ethical ground forces in the world... I'm not saying we have to commit right now,…
— James Mattis
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Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat)…
— Calvin Trillin
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I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something.…
— Alfred Kazin
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This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.
— Cecile Richards
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Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there…
— Pope Pius X
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I've played hockey most my life and I've never been badly injured...Three weeks into curling I've got bone chips in both my elbows. I still…
— James Allodi
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I detest . . . anything over-cooked, over-herbed, over-sauced, over elaborate. Nothing can go very far wrong at table as long as there is honest…
— Sybille Bedford
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It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in…
— Joseph Murray
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With all the strength of my soul I urge you young people to approach the Communion table as often as you can. Feed on this…
— Pier Giorgio Frassati
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Many Christians take their time and have leisure enough in their social life (no hurry here). They are leisurely, too, in their professionally activities, at…
— Josemaria Escriva
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