House Quotes - Page 35

• If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Organization, Despair, Looks

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.7

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• I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.

  Ashley Rickards

  Lists, Losing, No Excuses

  "It's Official: Awkward's Ashley Rickards Is Freaking Hilarious and She Shared Her Phone Pics to Prove It" by Caitlin Brody, www.glamour.com. September 20, 2012.

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• We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Growing Up, Two, Water

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• My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

  Anne Rice

  Flower, White, Funeral

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• If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Moving, Doors

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• And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

  Josef Albers

  Father, Glasses, Childhood

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• Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.

  Laozi

  Cutting, Doors, Taoism

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• My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

  Paz Vega

  Ambition, Years, Care

  "Viva La Vega". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

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• In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Hate, Winning, White

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• At another house two women learned very fast; I say women, but one was a girl about twelve or thirteen, already married, however. There was a little child about three years old. My sister asked, 'Who is the True God's Son?' The little thing replied, in a very sweet voice, 'Jesus.'

  Lottie Moon

  Girl, Sweet, Jesus

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.181, Mercer University Press

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• My house is me and I am it. My house is where I like to be and it looks like all my dreams.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Dream, Looks

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• In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.

  Zach Wamp

  Thank God, Let Me, Closing

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• There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Nice, America, People

  "Skip Gates Speaks". Interview with Dayo Olopade, www.theroot.com. July 21, 2009.

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• How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?

  Kamisese Mara

  Fire, Watches

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• There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other people. Very often they're not around. There's also a metaphysical loneliness. We all feel it. The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share. You take a step in a house, you start moving around the house, no one else moves with you. You're walking by yourself.

  David Ignatow

  Loneliness, Moving, Book

  David Ignatow, Ralph J. Mills (1980). “Open between us”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Is it true cats wont stay in a house when it's haunted?

  Jeff Valdez

  Cat

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• In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you

  Knut Hamsun

  Men, Understanding, Solitude

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• Having never left the house you are looking for the way home

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Home, Awakening, Way

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• If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.

  Eric Braeden

  Pay, Sticks, Wonderful

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

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• My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.

  Frank Carson

  Ideas, People, Middle East

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• I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.

  Phillip Lim

  Flower, Orchids, Two

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• A man who has been born into the house of a warrior and yet places no loyalty in his heart and thinks only of the fortune of his position will be flattering on the surface and construct schemes in his heart, will forsake righteousness and not reflect on his shame, and will stain the warrior's name of his household to later generations. This is truly regrettable.

  Torii Mototada

  Loyalty, Heart, Warrior

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• The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.

  Berton Braley

  Jobs, Best Job, Rivers

  Berton Braley, “Opportunity”

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• I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.

  Victor Cruz

  Twelve, Six Packs, Doughnut

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• I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.

  Christie Hefner

  Thinking, Economy, Allowance

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

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