Common Man Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

Carry your wounds with pride,
Believe in yourself;
amongst greatest of catastrophe'
You grew into the being you are
And I think that in itself,
is certainly enough. — Nikki Rowe

There is a patent conflict between the need to reverse or at least to control the impact of our economy on the biosphere and the imperatives of a capitalist market: maximum continuing growth in the search for profit. — Eric Hobsbawm

I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless. — Augustus William Hare

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everyone else. — Chris Rock

I think that a starting pitcher has to do something special to be as valuable or more so than a position player. — Justin Verlander

I get nice letters, but really I have no idea. I just try to enthuse people. You've been married for 31 years. — Alan Titchmarsh

No matter what Germany or Germans did, it was because they were defending themselves from international Jewry. The Jews were always the aggressor, the Germans always the victims. — Timothy Snyder

I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below. — Isaac Watts

If you become deadlocked,return to the prime point. — Daisaku Ikeda

As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen. — G.K. Chesterton

It had been a fix-up, a blind date set up by a well-meaning skinny coworker who had no clue that most men in Southern California placed overweight women in the same category as serial killers and believed them worthy of the same punishment - the death penalty. I finally had given in to her assurances that this man and I had a lot in common. Which, sadly, we did. But I saw the look of disappointment on his face when he entered the restaurant and realized that I was his date. I had seen that look before. It was unmistakable disgust encased in civility. Like a dead fish wrapped in clean white butcher paper, the covering kept your hands from being soiled but could not stop the stink. — Sue Ann Jaffarian

True restfulness, though, is a form of awareness, a way of being in life. It is living ordinary life with a sense of ease, gratitude, appreciation, peace and prayer. We are restful when ordinary life is enough. — Ronald Rolheiser

If time were a river, he felt as if eternity had stopped beside him on the bank to rest, sharing every story ever told, every victory ever won, every love ever known. — Julia Butler