House Quotes - Page 31

• I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House

  Deval Patrick

  Snakes, Names, St Patrick

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• Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can. But only after you kick him out of the house. And if you can't get him out, get help. It's available. In the meantime, don't let him near the kids, and don't let anyone tell you that if you forgive him it means you have to stay with him. [There's an important difference between forgiving a person and tolerating their bad behavior.]

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Husband, Children

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• If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Believe, Science, Greek

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• House passes #dadt (don't ask don't tell) repeal. A step fwd on equality 4 gay Americans in military. History will judge those who tried 2 block passage on this.

  Frank Pallone

  Block, Military, Gay

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• Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? 200,000.

  Mary Landrieu

  Years, Two, Nonprofits

  "Landrieu blasts Beck" by Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 29, 2010.

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• Back in the day in my teens I was listening to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery a lot; before that I was listening to what I would call now the more 'simple' jazz players (but still very valid), like Barney Kessell or Johnny Smith; I learnt a lot of voicings from Johnny Smith records. Now, I listen to the old blues players; that's what you'd hear in my house if there was music on. It would be Albert Collins or Albert King.

  Larry Carlton

  Music, Kings, Simple

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• As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in that place to sleep: and as I slept I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I looked, and saw him open the book, and read therein; and as he read, he wept and trembled: and not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry; saying, 'What shall I do?'

  John Bunyan

  Dream, Book, Sleep

  John Bunyan (1813). “The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World, to that which is to Come ... with Notes, Interesting Memoirs of the Author, Character of the Pilgrim's Progress, and a Key to the Whole Work ... by Various Eminent Men”, p.1

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• A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Space, Boxes, Has Beens

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, p.55, Penguin

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• One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

  Gaston Bachelard

  "The Poetics of Space". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1964.

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• Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.

  Dorothy Day

  Phones, Acting, Answering The Phone

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• I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Summer, Writing, Thinking

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• When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Germany, Eras, Nazi

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• Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.

  Steve Ballmer

  Real, Stupid, Knowledge

  "Microsoft’s Lost Decade". Vanity Fair, www.vanityfair.com. August 2012.

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• Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and away from the White House. Once in the road, free from the fields and brakes, he changed his run into a walk, and he never paused or stopped, till he came with a gulp of relief into the ugly streets of the big industrial town. He made hi way to the station at once, and found that he was an hour too soon for the London express. So, there was plenty of time for breakfast; which consisted of brandy.

  Arthur Machen

  Running, Eye, Men

  Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1290, Delphi Classics

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• The Liberals, apparently, want to prorogue the House. They want to run out of town, get out of town just one step ahead of the sheriff. Is the Liberal government committed to staying here as planned throughout the month of November so that it can be held accountable in the House for its actions?... Now is it true that the government will prorogue the House so that it will not be held accountable for its shameful record.

  Stephen Harper

  Running, Government, Months

  37th Parliament, 2nd Session, www.ourcommons.ca. October 20, 2003.

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• The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.

  Stephen Harper

  Party, Government

  "Harper appears open to working with Bloc in 2004 CBC interview". Interview with Evan Solomon, www.theglobeandmail.com. December 5, 2008.

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• Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong.

  John Jay Hooker

  Media, Government, Ordinary

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• The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.

  Maureen Dowd

  Sacrifice, White, Appreciate

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• It has no denim-toned house paint. Levi makes what is essentially a commodity: blue jeans. Its ads may evoke rugged outdoorsmanship, but Levi hasn't promoted any particular life style to sell other products.

  Naomi Klein

  Blue, Jeans, Style

  Naomi Klein (2010). “No Logo 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.71, Vintage Canada

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• I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.

  Sydney Brenner

  Tests, Chemistry, Enough

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• And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Thinking, Bird

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• Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people and trees and artifacts of a culture imposes an order on the scene - simplifies the jumble by giving it structure. He or she imposes this order by choosing a vantage point, choosing a frame, choosing a moment of exposure, and by selecting a plane of focus.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  Stephen Shore (2007). “The nature of photographs”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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• The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.

  Lev Grossman

  Country, Book, Facts

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• A husband is very much like a house or a horse.

  Anthony Trollope

  Horse, Husband

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.3352, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?

  Auberon Waugh

  Suicide, Boys, Hands

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