Tables On Quotes

#1. You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.

Gary Renard

#2. Normally it's the tortured who turn the tables on the unsuspecting and become the torturers. Tortured or not, you've got talent in this area. No wonder you're a Dom.
Jaxx Gavin to her hero Aries Taylor in Stare Me Dwon

Riley Murphy

#3. We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games.

Steve Yzerman

#4. Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can't laugh and be angry, you can't laugh and feel sad, you can't laugh and feel envious.

Bel Kaufman

#5. Blythe turned the tables on him. She was genuine. Sweet. Protective. Nurturing. Everything he'd never had and didn't know he needed or wanted. It was impossible not to love her.

Christine Feehan

#6. Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.

Orhan Pamuk

#7. I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.

Leonard Susskind

#8. Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there.

Robert Grosseteste

#9. She'd been feeling pleased with a couple of moves, had thought she was gaining the upper hand. But she'd been overconfident. She'd failed to notice his stealthy approach until he turned the tables on her with a move she hadn't expected and now she was fighting for her life.

Emily Arden

#10. Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.

Steven Pressfield

#11. All the Ping-Pong and pool tables, on-site chefs, Nerf hoops, and stereo systems cannot make up for the truth that some places work people like dogs.

Ken Wilber

#12. That is where a big part of the Old South is, on coffee tables in Greenwich Village.

Rick Bragg

#13. The vision that we and the Rothschilds have for India is to link Indian fields to the world and put the produce, as fresh as it can be, on Western tables in 4-5 days.

Sunil Mittal

#14. We aren't just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across a table. We are lovingly placed here for a purpose

Charles R. Swindoll

#15. It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

Richard P. Feynman

#16. The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander.

Oscar Wilde

#17. This planet was a marketplace where evil tugged murderously at its chains. Its spies were everywhere. At windy corners where young girls with knowing children's faces were selling flowers and matches, on the operating tables at the hospitals, in the slums, at railway stations, under viaducts.

Paul Leppin

#18. Looking desultorily about, his attention had been drawn by a dull glimmering on one of the tables; and he had extricated the queer orblike stone from its shadowy, crowded position between an ugly little Aztec idol, the fossil egg of a dinornis, and an obscene fetish of black wood from the Niger.

H.P. Lovecraft

#19. Okay. That's fair. Abso-tive-ly fair. Let's say the tables were turned. If I were about to walk off a cliff, what would you do?"
Evie pursed her lips. "Push?"
"I don't believe that."
"You would on the way down.

Libba Bray

#20. MY TOUGHEST MATCH; is not on the mat. It's at the dinner table and it's at fast food restaurants. It's hearing about the party I can Never go to. It's realizing being a Great Wrestler isn't a sport, It's a LIFE.

Stephen Neal

#21. You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.

America Ferrera

#22. Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.

Ted Dekker

#23. The fans may be surprised to know that during my freshman year at Oglethorpe, I waited on tables and never made an error, never dropped a tray nor broke a dish.

Luke Appling

#24. When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

Paul Ryan

#25. Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Florynce Kennedy

#26. Cooking is about putting food on the table night after night, and there isn't anything glamorous about it.

Christopher Kimball

#27. Our lives are a mosaic of little things, like putting a rose in a vase on the table.

Ingrid Trobisch

#28. Using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table.

Peter Norvig

#29. Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest of lovers' beds, baby cribs, meal tables, all the solid commerce of life in this earth, and feel apart, enclosed in a wall of glass.

Sylvia Plath

#30. The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.

Mae West

#31. Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.

Emily Post

#32. Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.

Confucius

#33. 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.

Eric Bana

#34. Electronics was something I could always fall back on when I needed food on the table.

Steve Jobs

#35. In primary school, there are kids who learn their conjugations and their multiplication tables. Me, I learned something more useful: the strong get off on walking all over other people, and wiping their feet while they're at it, like you would on a doormat.

Marie Sabine Roger

#36. My brother Julio and I worked to improve the quality of wines from California and to put fine wine on American dinner tables at a price people could afford

Ernest Gallo

#37. In my experience, I've noticed that waiting on tables is one of two things that almost everyone thinks they can do. The other is writing. Perhaps it's no accident that there is only one letter of difference between waiter and writer.

Debra Ginsberg

#38. 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."

Ilana Glazer

#39. When thousands of men and women work full time but need food stamps to put food on their tables, when they can't get health benefits, when they can't get paid sick days, then we must do whatever we can to stand up for them.

Charles B. Rangel

#40. When I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says Private - grownups keep out: a children sprawled on the bed, reading.

Anne Fadiman

#41. Law is twofold
natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.

Ambrose

#42. Ah, hello." He gathered his courage. This was just like reading poetry, but subtract poems and add people casually placing hunting knives and daggers on their tables. One of the women was filing her fingernails into sharp points, like claws. Just like reading poetry.

Cynthia Hand

#43. I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself.

Warren Buffett

#44. The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

Benjamin Walker

#45. PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings. But using PowerPoint is like having a loaded AK-47 on the table: You can do very bad things with it.

Peter Norvig

#46. When I eat, I always pick out the best parts in the middle and leave everything else on the side. It becomes a big sculptural mess, but there are nice compositional elements about how it all sits on the table.

Elizabeth Neel

#47. One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead.

Melissa De La Cruz

#48. It just seemed that we always ended up at the Rainbow, to the point where they finally just said, 'Why don't you guys go up into this loft, where we'll kind of protect people from coming around and sitting on the tables.' And we thought that was a great idea.

Alice Cooper

#49. It's now the British Muse's fables That lie on maidens' bedside tables And haunt their dreams. They worship now The Vampire with his pensive brow,

Alexander Pushkin

#50. Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table

Sheryl Sandberg

#51. Being honest when you're dealing with others is easier to do because your honesty is on the table for all to view ... Being honest with yourself is more difficult because you only have to justify it in private where no one can see it.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#52. This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table

George W. Bush

#53. Most people that commit to a life of celibacy weren't leaving that much on the table in the first place.

Dov Davidoff

#54. The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.

John Calvin

#55. Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

Thomas Carlyle

#56. The headwaiter said something to her in the foyer, and she told him, "I'm looking for somebody," and went on to the doorway. She stood in the doorway, looking over the people at the tables in the room where a piano played.

Patricia Highsmith

#57. The table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it.

George Berkeley

#58. 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

J.R.R. Tolkien

#59. Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

Peter Singer

#60. I like being straightforward. We can deal with anything as long as it's on the table.

Tory Burch

#61. I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I've never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables.

Blake Lively

#62. Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.

Jason Mraz

#63. Everyone in the class turned. On one of the tables, a frog had started to smoke, and the limbs were twitching spasmodically. Dr. Herbert rushed over, clapping his hands. "It's alive!" he cried.

Daryl Gregory

#64. A generation of lawyers and statisticians cut their teeth on the to-hit and damage tables of medieval fantasy. File it under yet another ridiculous thing that probably saved somebody's life.

Austin Grossman

#65. The manner in which Americans 'consume' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie
it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Frank Zappa

#66. 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.

Lev Grossman

#67. Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.

Warren G. Bennis

#68. 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.

Josh Earnest

#69. Playing drums or music, being a musician, is inside of you. So you would always see me tapping on something, playing on tables ... I never felt the need to pull out drums.

Eric Hernandez

#70. Chopsticks box! I didn't know before and put them on the table and my Japan friends scolded me.

Seungri

#71. The position of sun and moon on the Feast of Beltane is one, with a list if two hundred paired figures laid out beneath. Similar tables existed for Hogmanay and Midsummer's Day, and Samhainn, the Feast of All Hallows. The ancient feasts of fire and sun, and Beltane's sun would rise tomorrow.

Diana Gabaldon

#72. Our family room, where we live, is about togetherness and ease. Nothing in my house is too formal. There are no coasters on tables; the kids can eat Popsicles on the couch if they want to. I let them ride these little cycles we got for them when they were 3 that have rubber wheels and no pedals.

Cindy Crawford

#73. I can trace every romance of my life back to a meal. My memories are enhanced by the tender morsels had at tables across from lovers, on blankets with friends who'd eventually become more, in banquets, barbecues, and breakfasts.

Stephanie Klein

#74. We need a president who understands the contributions and values of rural America, a president who understands the men and women who are up at 5 a.m. every day to grow the food that we put on our tables.

John Salazar

#75. *** Teacher: "Why are you on the floor?" Johnny: "Because you said to do this math problem without tables!

Various

#76. Kids in aprons appeared, putting tureens of vegetable soup on the tables and plates of boiled eggs, potatoes and lentils, bowls of endive-and-radish salad, small rounds of cheese and loaves of brown bread, all looking quite delicious, in Zoe's opinion.

Christine Brodien-Jones

#77. In medieval Europe, aristocrats spent their money carelessly on extravagant luxuries, whereas peasants lived frugally, minding every penny. Today, the tables have turned. The rich take great care managing their assets and investments, while the less well-heeled go into debt buying cars and

Yuval Noah Harari

#78. Wars are fought on objectives, not on timetable, and that's why I've been so insistent upon not allowing ourselves to have policy driven by time table, but by objective.

George W. Bush

#79. As Jogiches walked in with her past the potted plants in the entrance, to face the smiles and all the food laid out on little tables, he whispered: 'As soon as this dinner is over, I shall kill you...

John Peter Nettl

#80. If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip

Ronald Reagan

#81. Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

Kara Swisher

#82. What did you see?' he asked then. Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what you wanted me to see, though the man on the table might disagree.

Alice Hoffman

#83. With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#84. In other words these children, by avoiding the early drill on combinations, tables, and that sort of thing, had been able, in one year, to attain the level of accomplishment which the traditionally taught children had reached after three and one-half years of arithmetical drill.

Louis P. Benezet

#85. He's spilled the beans. He's poured out His intentions, allowing us full access. The humans put the Forbidden Book on display tables and shelves. But we actually read it; indeed we must no matter how loathsome.

Randy Alcorn

#86. The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile)

Ronald Reagan

#87. King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.

Edward Abbey

#88. Who? Mr. Dalton has his hand firmly on Grace's elbow, as though she can't manoeuvre herself through the blockade of tables and chairs.
She could fly right through you, thinks Jack.

Helen Humphreys

#89. I put food on the table
and roof overhead.
But I'd trade it all tomorrow
for the highway instead.

Tom Waits

#90. Companions, the creator seeketh, not corpses - and not herds or believers either. Fellow-creators the creator seeketh - those who grave new values on new tables.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#91. Felting Phil (taking all of his chips down to the felt on the table). I loved beating him and then hed go over to the couch and sulk, staring at the ceiling.

Jennifer Tilly

#92. Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.

James H. Douglas Jr.

#93. If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans for my own life, then I could be successful.

Star Parker

#94. I've been in this business for a long while, but it's not like I've been waiting tables. Since I started writing, I've only worked on things that I love. I've had a lot of heartbreak, but you don't become an artist and not expect that.

Joss Whedon

#95. God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.

Edmond Jabes

#96. When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

Gelett Burgess

#97. When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the audience and played. So I started taking my guitar in the audience. I tripped, fell backwards and ripped my pants.

Meredith Brooks

#98. My mother always sits on the edges of things
chairs, ledges, tables
as if she suspects she will have to flee in an instant.

Veronica Roth

#99. I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.

Ty Pennington

#100. Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

Eleanora Duse