Table Themes Quotes

#1. Lay hold of today's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow's. While we are postponing, life speeds by. 3.

Seneca.

#2. There are no secrets, there is no mystery. We make that all up. In fact, it's all right there in front of us. You have to have enough food to get through winter and spring. That's what it all comes down to. You have to live in a way that will gather enough food each fall to get through winter.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#3. There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't want us at all.

Lauren DeStefano

#4. Every girl should be told her worth the way Wes was telling me of mine. In that instant, my heart soared and I experienced true security. All because he told me I was important, special ... a treasure.

Rachel Van Dyken

#5. The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.

Pope John Paul II

#6. The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of the ravages of the terrible monster over-multiplication, all other riddle sink into insignificance.

Thomas Huxley

#7. Americans were all farmers and shopkeepers at heart ...

Orson Scott Card

#8. Should we tolerate the blatant incorrectness of religion? Tolerating ignorance, superstition and stupidity will not provide for a healthy advancement of our society. Religion is cancer for modern thought, rationality, and even common sense.

Odin Zeus McGaffer

#9. When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.

Gary Numan

#10. Whatever you do, don't ever use a crutch, and don't ever think of having an excuse for not having said, 'Yeah, I did my best.'

Isadore Sharp

#11. Sleep every chance you get. Eat every chance you get. Those were two of the many lessons that Kat learned at her father's knee and her uncle's table.

Ally Carter

#12. When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.

Pema Chodron