Refectory Table Quotes & Sayings

If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul. — William Shakespeare

Things don't just happen. They are made to happen. — John F. Kennedy

Sometimes our heroes let us down. — Shannon Mullen

Its complicated, on one level. On another, its the same old stupid story - we aren't enlightened. We disagree, fall in love, and hate eachother, the whole spectrum of human experience. We have differences of opinion, and sometimes, we can't resolve those differences peacefully. If a disagreement goes for long enough, and is important enough, people start to take sides. Once people start to take sides, conflict is inevitable. — Zachary Rawlins

Everything in his life had led to this moment
every decision both good and bad, every heart-ache, every struggle, every victory and every defeat. And then he hesitated and that moment was over, squandered, and gone forever. — Testy McTesterson

No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally. — Elena Anaya

We had struck a pact: Better not to know anything about each other. And this pact is what holds families together for generations. We wore masks. Our faces no longer recognizable underneath, for our masks had grown onto us. It hurt to pull them off. It hurt so much that the pain of never meeting face to face was bearable, compared to the pain of showing your true face. — Milena Michiko Flasar

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. — Henry Adams

Why do you need to do a fancy cartwheel for before you hit him? It just looks stupid. — Owen Hart

You can do this (this thing, where your body will cease to produce hormones and your skin, hair, muscles and bones ... basically every part of you will notice, go into withdrawals, and stage a coup). Be prepared for this mentally, and you'll own this thing. — Lisa Jey Davis

He and Werner eat their first meal in their starchy new uniforms at a long wooden table in the refectory. Some boys talk in whispers, some sit alone, some gulp food as if they have not eaten in days. Through three arched windows, dawn sends a sheaf of hallowed golden rays. Frederick flutters his fingers and asks, "Do you like birds?" "Sure." "Do you know about hooded crows? — Anthony Doerr

I had two ambitions: One was to be in The Actors Studio, and the other was to walk into a bar where actors hung out, and everyone would know that I was a professional actor and I would be accepted. — Peter Falk

I like big drinks that aren't afraid of the alcohol in them. Not big in size, but in flavor, and the way I can allow myself to enjoy them is by making them in very small quantities. I make tiny glasses of very big drinks. — Rachel Maddow

Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him. — L. Frank Baum

I believe there is no greater act of marital love or martyrdom than attending an event involving your spouse's family without your spouse in attendance. — Melanie Shankle