"President Obama had lunch with Republican leaders at the White House today and had to do without salt, pepper and butter. Not for dietary reasons. The Republicans refused to pass anything."

-- Jay Leno

#Lunch Quotes #White Quotes #House Quotes

“O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.”
“A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.”
“In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, I know one boy who won't be sweating. I intend to raise my coffin-lid briskly, throw a few things into an overnight bag, and, whistling something appropriate, prepare to meet my Maker.”

Source : Alan Coren (1965). “The dog it was that died”
“Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.”
“Business operators that really deeply care about their employees and consumers deliver the right response every day.”
“But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation.”
“What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.”
“Her father was the face of her morning and night, he was everything, so saturating Havaaâ€™s world that she could no more describe him than she could the air.”

Source : Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.16, Random House

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