House Quotes - Page 9

• The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to the cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers.

  Will Durant

  Religious, Father, Infidelity

  "Story of Philosophy".

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• Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Earthquakes, Race

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1962). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels on Britain”

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• Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.

  Martin Heidegger

  Home, Men, Thinking

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• I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Winter, Thinking, Impact

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• We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.

  Jimmy Carter

  Talking, White, America

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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• I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.

  Dan Quayle

  Support, Effort, Limits

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• Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.

  E. L. James

  Jobs, Children, Nice

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.

  E. L. James

  Writing, Uggs, Boots

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.

  Hugo Chavez

  Home, Talking, Smell

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 2006

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• Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact.

  Charles Babbage

  Government, Class, Facts

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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• Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be a retard summit at the White House.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Taken, White

  "Will Sarah Palin call on Rush Limbaugh to apologize for saying liberal activists are ‘retards’?" by Matt Corley, thinkprogress.org. February 3, 2010.

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• Not my political ideas. Conservatism didn’t buy this house. First and foremost I’m a businessman. My first goal is to attract the largest possible audience so I can charge confiscatory ad rates. I happen to have great entertainment skills, but that enables me to sell airtime.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Skills, Ideas, Goal

  "Late-Period Limbaugh". www.nytimes.com. July 6, 2008.

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• I love wearing trackies to lounge around the house in and the strange thing is, it doesn’t matter how many new ones I get I still tend to feel most comfortable in my old ones.

  Miranda Kerr

  Matter, Strange, Feels

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• I actually saw the loch ness monster when I was 9. She was big as a house. Want to know who the loch ness monster is? It's your obese mother. Burn mother****er

  Thom Yorke

  Mother, Monsters, Want

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• I often fake my death and then just show up at people's houses. They say 'that's a good one Thom' but I know maybe they don't really think it's a funny joke.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, People, Fake

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• I stopped showering ever since I realized water causes people to drown. I cannot risk being so close to something that can murder me. Do you let killers into your house? Oh, but you let a murderer come out of your own faucet. Hypocrite.

  Thom Yorke

  Hypocrite, Water, People

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• You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president

  James Baker

  White, Tennis, President

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• Well, it came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. It came from all over. I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, 'You got to say this is connected. This is state-sponsored terrorism. This has to be connected to Saddam Hussein.

  Wesley Clark

  Home, White, Cnn

  "Daily MoJo", www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2003.

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• Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

  Margaret Fuller

  Home, Fire, Mind

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• If a man owns land,
  the land owns him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Men, Land

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.376

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• The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.

  Robert Silverberg

  Common Sense, Citizens, Vindictive

  Robert Silverberg (2013). “Hot Times in Magma City: The Collected Stories”, p.208, Hachette UK

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• A Not So Big House feels more spacious than many of its oversized neighbors because it is space with substance, all of it in use every day.

  Sarah Susanka

  Space, Substance, Neighbor

  Sarah Susanka, Grey Crawford (2002). “Creating the Not So Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American Home”, p.9, Taunton Press

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• Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.

  Brian Aldiss

  Writing, Pride, Reality

  "Bury My Heart at W. H. Smith's". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1990.

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• I just don't have the desire no more, I don't have the stomach to do it no more. I don't even kill insects in my house. I just don't kill anything no more. I used to kill pigeons, rip their heads off, 'You dirty rat pigeon!' I don't even have the heart to kill an animal no more. I just changed my whole life in general. That probably could have changed the way I fight.

  Mike Tyson

  Rip, Dirty, Heart

  "Tyson's love for the fight game turns to disgust". Interview with Dan Rafael, www.espn.com. June 11, 2005.

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• One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Dope, Thinking

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