Tables Quotations | Page 5

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal.

Any girl that's got a $500,000 table and $5 shoes, I'm in love with.

At most project meetings, everyone has a seat at the table except the poor victims who will have to operate the technology.

If you saw me working with construction crews or graphic designers, you'd see how much I'm really hoping for them to bring something to the table and let God in the room and let things happen naturally.

Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder." - Gandalf

They remember me as this shy girl sitting under the table. But they obviously didn't know what was going on in my head.

Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.

I couldn't care less about league tables. I'm more interested in kitchen tables and conference room tables.

My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

He pulled up alright and trained well this morning, hopefully we can turn the tables on Saturday. We just had about every bit of bad luck happen to us last week. He had the bad start and losing a shoe at the 600 was the finishing touch to what ended up a bad day.

What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.

When we were on tour, a lot of people just dropped joints on the merch table for us. That was great. Every time, I was like, "Thank you so much."

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.

To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.

The table robbes more then a thiefe.

Speake not of a dead man at the table.

My audience is often hands-up, standing and cheering and on tables and all of that kind of things.

The happiest moments for me, creatively, are doing readings of a play around a table where there's no audience.

I come to the table from a conservative or libertarian point of view, and I admit that. I'm a commentator. I'm not a journalist or anything else.

I was never an ingénue at any point in my career. I was hoping that whatever I was bringing to the table, it wasn't some physical attribute that would change or fade over time.

The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

Its always nice to have a stud muffin at the table.

I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

Does anyone know why Will left?" Charlotte demanded, standing at the head of a long table around which the rest of them were seated. Cecily, her hands folded demurely before her, suddenly became very interested in the pattern of the carpet.

I don't care about risk to me," he hissed, leaning forward across the table. "I care about what happens to you! Dammit, I'm practically indestructible. Let me go. You stay behind." "Yes," Clary said, "Jace won't find that odd at all. You can just tell him you've always been secretly in love with him and you can't stand being parted.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. Ive always said this is the only way forward.

I found that the majority of people who stopped at my table [ at the Comic Con] last didn't even know who Winnie the Pooh was, and the new feature was just opening in the theaters.

Netflix is like sitting at the cool kids' table. Netflix is amazing. We're the biggest fans of not only working there, but of the company, in general.

There's not a sense that the person who is waiting on the table is somehow a lesser person that the person who is eating in the restaurant.

We have marched in lockstep with Israel. We've been side by side with them as they've confronted the Iranian nuclear threat and we'll continue to be. All options do remain on the table. That's something that we've said all along. That continues to be the case.

Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for.

I dont know whether its a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.

You can fake your way to the table, but ultimately you have to learn how to eat.

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.

Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

When you go to auditions, pretend you already have the job and you're just presenting - almost like you're at the table read. Don't go in with an air of, 'Please like me,' or, 'Please hire me.' You're like, 'Here's my take on it. Take it or leave it. I've got a lot of other things to do today.'

Table the label and wear your own name.

The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men.

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.

The familiarities of the gaming-table contribute very much to the decay of politeness ... The pouts and quarrels that naturally arise from disputes must put an end to all complaisance, or even good will towards one another.

Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.

Michael nodded tersely, eyeing a table across the room. It was empty. So empty. So joyfully, blessedly empty. He could picture himself a very happy man at that table. "Not feeling very conversational this evening, are we?" Colin asked, breaking into his (admittedly tame) fantasies.

It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.

And not to serve for a table-talk.

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company is important and prosperous.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

I've never really thought of myself as having an ego. I've always found myself as having a lot of confidence. I know I have a lot of great ability. I know what I bring to the table.

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

There's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

Do all your eating at a table.

Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost,

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.

Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. “What happened to her?” he asked. “Poor taste in boyfriends,” said Jacquel. “It’s not always fatal.

He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on what anyone was saying and which was worse that he was not interested in any of what he was able to hear.

Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.

One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.

And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers and forgets in a pattern whose labyrinthine windings are an identification mark no less distinctive than a fingerprintit’s no wonder that the shards of reality one person will cherish as a biography can seem to someone else who, say, happened to have eaten some ten thousand dinners at the very same kitchen table, to be a willful excursion into mythomania

Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you.

Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.

The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.

Be able to set a table so that you feel like you're dining, not just sitting and eating.

Words and works eat not at one table.

To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.

I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

We set the table, but no one ate.

Jeter is a six-tool player...I've never eaten with him so I can't tell you if he has good table mannners, but I would imagine he has those too.

Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

I don't consciously seek out Australian projects. I put them on the same table as all the other scripts and I wouldn't ever do a film just because it's been shot at home.

The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.

I think I kind of came out of the womb singing. I think I was, like, born at the hospital, and, you know, popped out, and was singing. ... I'm not sure really how it happened. I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing, or banging a beat on the dinner table.

Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids.

Diapers do not belong on the same table as food.

I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.

In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant.

The good thing is we'll be in the same boat next year. That's what we said when we had our last huddle. Our goal is to come back and turn the tables and be on the good side next year.

The first few years of SOX implementation left a lack of clarity that paralyzed some financial and business consultants and frustrated many companies. Trusted advisors in the Big Four were not able to respond to questions across board room tables for fear of breaking regulatory requirements.

The CISD Transportation Department promptly responded to the situation and had buses available immediately to transport students, along with their teachers, to Alice Johnson Junior High. AJJH and Harvey Brown staff organized tables to greet parents and have them sign out their children.

I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.

There's over 2000 donkeys in this tournament and I had to be at the table with none of them.