House Quotes - Page 28

• You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.

  Georges Danton

  Down And, Salt, Revolution

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• In this vast universe There is but one supreme truth- That God is our friend! By that truth meaning is given To the remote stars, the numberless centuries, The long and heroic struggle of mankind . . . O my Soul, dare to trust this truth! Dare to rest in God's kindly arms, Dare to look confidently into His face, Then launch thyself into life unafraid! Knowing thou art within my Father's house, That thou art surrounded by His love, Thou wilt become master of fear, Lord of Life, conqueror even of death!

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Art, Stars, Fear

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• The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

  Walter Bagehot

  Political, Looks, Politics

  "The greatest obstacles to Lords reform sit in the Commons" by Andrew Rawnsley, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2012.

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• I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

  Rachel Jackson

  Political, Politics, Palaces

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• What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

  Mack McLarty

  Italian, White, Political

  "Panetta and Petraeus" by Jon Michaud, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.

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• I fully support President Bush's decision to strike Al Qaeda's terrorist network. Now more than ever, we must stand united as a nation and support our President and our military. It is important to remember that this carefully targeted response is not an attack on a religion, nor a nation, but an attack on terrorism. In Congress, we will continue to work with the White House to do what's needed to bring justice to those who committed the heinous and evil attacks of September 11.

  Tom Harkin

  Military, White, Evil

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• I don't think the market can keep going up. In the U.S., we see real estate not going up.. houses are selling at lower prices. You can't have anything going up 10 percent to 20 percent to 30 percent indefinitely.

  Eli Broad

  Real, Thinking, Investing

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• A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

  Irving Penn

  Beautiful, Photography, Pages

  Merry A. Foresta, Irving Penn, William F. Stapp, National Museum of American Art (U.S.), National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) (1990). “Irving Penn master images: the collections of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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• Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.

  Colin Fletcher

  Journey, Thinking, Hiking

  Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.146, Knopf

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• ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Mother, Kings, Father

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.843, Library of America

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• I think in the end we will have negotiations with the House. They don't have any incentive for a long, drawn-out trial. We'll have negotiations with the White House. Despite all their threats they are going to have a prolonged defense. The reality is they are the driving force behind getting this over quickly.

  Phil Gramm

  Thinking, Reality, White

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• No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

  Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

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• The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.

  Paul Gillmor

  Work, Important, Care

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• I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food.

  Jean Dujardin

  Garden, Names, Green

  "Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

  Hesiod

  Home, Years, Wife

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• Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

  Francis Parkman

  Two Sides, Leaving, Construction

  Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.352, Library of America

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• A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

  Uwe Boll

  Dark, Typical, Easier

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• In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Home, Phones, Light

  Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf

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• The House
  
  ...She lays her beams in music,
  In music everyone,
  To the cadence of the whirling world
  Which dances around the sun-
  That so they shall not be displaced
  By lapses or by wars,
  But for the love of happy souls
  Outlive the newest stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Music, Stars

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• The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels

  Theodor Herzl

  Secret, Machines, Movement

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• I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star. Other presidents' wives have gone to the barrios wearing house dresses and slippers. That's not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example.

  Imelda Marcos

  Stars, People, Wife

  The Los Angeles Times, 1980.

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• When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Children, Light, Treasure

  "Christmas Carol". Interview with Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 04, 2005.

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• There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

  Stevie Smith

  Running, Night, Fog

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• A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside it altered by being viewed from these windows.

  Alice Munro

  Stories, World, Rooms

  "Selected Stories, 1968-1994". Book by Alice Munro, 1996.

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• I personally regard all of the houses of the Lord as the work of Jehovah, initiated by him, built by him, designed by him, and dedicated to him and his program.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Jehovah, Lord, Program

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