House Quotes - Page 24

• When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Christian, Light, White

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• This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, People, Looks

  George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• Every Victim requires a Persecutor. But the Persecutor isn't always necessarily a person. The Persecutor could also be a condition or a circumstance. A persecuting condition might be a disease or a heart attack, or an injury. A persecuting circumstance could be a natural disaster, like a hurricane or an earthquake or a house burning down.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Heart, Earthquakes, Burning Down

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• The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these. It resembles the prank of boys, who run with fire-engines to put out the ruddy aurora streaming to the stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Stars, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

  Simone Weil

  God, Views, Giving

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• Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Dog, White, Pet

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• Build your house on the rock of learning; no one can take your education away from you.

  John Spence

  Thinking, Rocks, Away From You

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• I think it is not only important that people go to the Anne Frank House to see the secret annex, but also that they are helped to realise that people are also persecuted today because of their race, religion or political convictions.

  Otto Frank

  Thinking, Race, People

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

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• I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Father, Athlete

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• At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Birthday, Fire

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.15, Penguin

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• Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.

  Alcaeus

  Wall, Opportunity, Men

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• After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches...and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be...Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience-let him read someone else.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Book, Reading

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• Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Palaces, Events, Be Good

  'Table Talk' (1835) 9 May 1830

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• It's time to restore honor and dignity to the White House.

  George W. Bush

  White, Honor, Dignity

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• In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses with all the inhabitants as members. In them the people wield immense influence over their magistrates and often carry their desires into execution without intermediaries.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, America, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Men, Looks

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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• I send messages to the White House continuously

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  White, Messages, White House

  "John King, USA", edition.cnn.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down house a 'great fixer-upper'. Just once, I'd like them to show me a house and declare, 'This one's a piece of crap'.

  Stephan Pastis

  Running, Real, Pieces

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• The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

  Booker T. Washington

  Sight, Class, Pages

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Wherever God erects a house of prayer
  the Devil always builds a chapel there;
  And 't will be found, upon examination,
  the latter has the largest congregation.

  Daniel Defoe

  Prayer, Atheism, Devil

  'The True-Born Englishman' (1701) pt. 1, l. 1.

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• These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

  Allan Bloom

  Men, Order, Lions

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• When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

  William James

  Children, Men, Thinking

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.293, Harvard University Press

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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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• 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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