“That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.” WellsPainPleasureMoralClassPrinciplesSeeingMembersTablesCoffeeAbstractSheerConstructsTormentRulingTheoreticalMoral Principles Book:The Acid House Source: The Acid House
“The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already--lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb.” LittlesTwoBookLastsPastHalfPlayerMembersOfficeWeightTwentiesTablesNineClockPushingThumbsMothsBookshops Book:The complete works of George Orwell Source: The complete works of George Orwell
“In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.” EndsWaitingRoomsPartyMembersTablesLabourDiningLabour PartyDining Rooms Author:Gyles Brandreth
“And he [Louis Brandeis] talks to his young acolyte, Horace Kallen, who wrote this beautiful book called Cultural Pluralism, and he comes to believe that by being better Jews, or better members of our ethnic group, we can be better Americans, because America is like an orchestra in which identity is defined by the diversity of perspectives that we bring to the table.” BelieveBookAmericaBeautifulYoungGroupsIdentityPerspectiveMembersDiversityTablesJewDefinedOrchestraPluralismEthnic GroupsLouis BrandeisBeautiful Books Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“There is a distorted perception of what goes on in Brussels. No one reports on the Commission taking a hundred initiatives from its predecessor off the table in order to shift competencies back to member state governments.” StatesGovernmentOrderGoes OnMembersPerceptionHundredTablesReportsInitiativePredecessorsState GovernmentBrusselsCompetencies Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'” WayWantDonePrinciplesMembersTablesWhat You WantNegotiationBipartisanConcessionsTed Kennedy Author:John McCain