Jabbour Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

For some, gin was a vile and degrading venom, but for many others it was a thirst-quencher, a proof of virility, an aphrodisiac, a rite of passage, a tonic, a nourishment, a pacifier for children, a fount of confidence and inspiration for the preacher or the soapbox ranter. — Richard Barnett

Dear Mr. Fontenot: Glancing over your portfolio, it struck me that you are not in the best position to take advantage of the dawning age of missiles ... — Walker Percy

You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself. — Dwayne Johnson

Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived. — Orson Scott Card

It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result. — William S. Burroughs

I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit ... If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it - you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world. — Harry Crews

Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas. — Kate Christensen

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. — Publilius Syrus

It's in this moment that I know
I'm lost to her, forever.
She doesn't just own my heart,
she is my heart. — Kristen Proby

I don't see, based on the evidence, economic and moral, that we can make it that much further. — Joel C. Rosenberg

O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent. — Walt Whitman

Love is alone sufficient by itself, it pleases by itself and for it's own sake. It is itself a merit, and itself it's own recompense. It seeks neither cause, nor consequences beyond itself. It is its own fruit, its own object and usefulness. I love because I love you, I love that I may love. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy. — Martin Luther

The Telescope, the Flaxions, the inventions of Logarithms and the frenzy of multiplication, often for its own sake, that follow'd have for Emerson all been steps of an unarguable approach to God, a growing clarity, - Gravity, the Pulse of time, the finite speed of Light present themselves to him as aspects of God's character. It's like becoming friendly with an erratic, powerful, potentially, dangerous member of the Aristocracy. — Thomas Pynchon