Dinnertime Conversation Quotes & Sayings

Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people. — Rand Paul

The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688. — Bernard Bailyn

He's like the tiger shark in Jaws. The one Dreyfuss cuts open in the fisherman's basement. That's why we named him Hooper. You remember the tiger shark? He had a license plate in his stomach?" "I never saw Jaws. I caught one of the sequels on TV in rehab. The one with Michael Caine." Another silence followed, this one awestruck and wondering. "Jesus. No wonder we didn't last," Lou said. — Joe Hill

There's not one living thing on this planet that doesn't scream to survive." I — Patricia Engel

Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them. — Mikhail Bulgakov

What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason. — Voltaire

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family. — Hans Kung

It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians , whose virtues have been those of peace , and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny and it has been bitter whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe. — Lord Byron

The shared meal is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life,
the place where our children learn the art of conversation and acquire
the habits of civilization: sharing, listening, taking turns, navigating
differences, arguing without offending. What have been called the
"cultural contradictions of capitalism" - its tendency to undermine
the stabilizing social forms it depends on - are on vivid display today
at the modern American dinner table, along with all the brightly colored packages that the food industry has managed to plant there. — Michael Pollan

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience — William James

I saw a giraffe with a short neck
That was sad
Or a deer — Bo Burnham

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. — Joseph Addison

He listens when I talk. — Gwenda Bond

The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5. — Mark Zuckerberg

When the whistle blows, I'm completely exhausted, physically and mentally. I get in the locker room and I sit down and I just exhale. Finally, the danger is over. — Tim Howard