Serviettes De Table Quotes & Sayings

I don't know the numbers, but roughly half of the people who came through Ellis Island returned home. They came here to make money, not to make history. — Aleksandar Hemon

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.' — Liz Williams

Well, kid," Aahz said, sweeping me with an appraising stare, "it looks like we're stuck with each other. The setup isn't ideal, but it's what we've got. Time to bite the bullet and play with the cards we're dealt. You do know what cards are, don't you?"
"Of course," I said, slightly wounded.
"Good."
"What's a bullet? — Robert Asprin

If I have to die either for religion or atheism I would prefer atheism, since my conscience will respect my rational decision. — M.F. Moonzajer

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger. — Thomas Friedman

It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals. — Jonathan Haidt

You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home. — Abbie Hoffman

Some people's heads are like their hats; it appears that just like hanging their hats they hang their heads somewhere and walk without them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to thee; and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it thou art — Marcus Aurelius

If you go to bed at 10:00 and get up by 6:00 A.M., things will work out for you. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Have you ever seen Russian nesting dolls?"
Thrown by the questions, she opened her eyes. Why would he suddenly speak about a child's toy? "I own a few of them."
"Then you must understand that undressing you is like playing with one of those dolls. I open one to find another beneath it. I took away your gown to find you are still as clothed as you were a moment ago and I wonder how many more layers I will have to work through to get down to you - the doll I'm searching for. — Dominique Eastwick

I'd learned a long time ago that you can't prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it's the devil to prove you didn't do something. — Laurell K. Hamilton

My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store. — PJ Harvey

I felt in my bones that Alfred Kazin was right to suggest that 'the deepest side of being American is the sense of being like nothing before us in history' - a historical conceit that privileged biography as the narrative of the exceptionalist experience. — David Levering Lewis