18st Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

Some are interested in the mysterious, but lose interest once they think they know you. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all? — Wilfred Owen

What are you talking about?' cried Lukashka. 'We must go through the middle gates, of course. — Leo Tolstoy

The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror — Gustave Flaubert

If there is one point on which all authorities on Japan are in agreement, it is that Japanese institutions, whether business or government agencies, make decisions by consensus. The Japanese, we are told, debate a proposed decision throughout the organization until there is agreement on it. And only then do they make the decision. — Peter F. Drucker

The less men think, the more they talk. — Charles De Montesquieu

I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields. — Mahatma Gandhi

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever. — Patricia McConnell

The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform. — Frank Pavone

I can wade Grief
Whole Pools of it
I'm used to that
But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet
And I tip
drunken
Let no Pebble
smile
'Twas the New Liquor
That was all! — Emily Dickinson

True, Clara's eyebrows didn't meet. But she was really too pneumatic. Whereas Fifi and Joanna were absolutely right. Plump, blonde, not too large ... And it was that great lout, Tom Kawaguchi, who now took the seat between them. — Aldous Huxley

Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad. — Jincy Willett

Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron. It is too much grief at too slight a cause, pain that takes over from the other emotions and crowds them out. Such depression takes up bodily occupancy in the eyelids and in the muscles that keep the spine erect. It hurts your heart and lungs, making the contraction of involuntary muscles harder than it needs to be. Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come. The present tense of mild depression envisages no alleviation because it feels like knowledge. — Andrew Solomon

And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be. — Bette Greene

There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news. — Kim Edwards