House Quotes - Page 14

• If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.

  Herodotus

  Drunk, Decision, Important

  Herodotus (2007). “Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants”, p.47, Penguin UK

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• Through countless births in the cycle of existence
  I have run, not finding
  although seeking the builder of this house;
  and again and again I faced the suffering of new birth.
  Oh housebuilder! Now you are seen.
  You shall not build a house again for me.
  All your beams are broken,
  the ridgepole is shattered.
  The mind has become freed from conditioning:
  the end of craving has been reached.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Buddhist, Broken

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• Electing clean-energy leaders into the Senate, the House, and the Oval Office - and getting it done in the next few years - is the only real solution to climate stabilization at acceptable levels.

  Eban Goodstein

  Real, Years, Office

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• A review of the science suggests that uncertainty is so high as to raise a good prospect that mandatory green house gas reductions will produce little or no environmental benefit.

  Kenneth P. Green

  Environmental, Benefits, Green

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• Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Believe, Sweat, People

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• The public school system is damned. Let me tell you how radical I am. Christian students should be in Christian schools. If you have to sell your car, live in a smaller house, or work a night job, put your child in Christian schools. If you can't afford it, homeschool.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Jobs, Children

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• I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. 'I'll bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. She'll get her shots, and she'll get her braces. We'll start a college fund next week. I'll tell her I love her every damn day.' If that wasn't a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn't imagine what a better one could be

  Charlaine Harris

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.

  Charles Dickens

  Pride, Scary, Graves

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.64

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• Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Fall, Scary

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.282

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• Thirty spokes meet in the hub,
  but the empty space between them
  is the essence of the wheel.
  
  Pots are formed from clay,
  but the empty space within it
  is the essence of the pot.
  
  Walls with windows and doors
  form the house,
  but the empty space within it
  is the essence of the home.

  Laozi

  Wall, Home, Essence

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• Why is the world round?
  Why do the suckas bite?
  Why do the freaks come out at night?
  Why they paint Jesus white?
  I sit and wonder why we breakin hip-hop laws,
  Doing videos in houses that we know ain't yours.

  Lee Majors

  Jesus, Rap, Night

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• You heard about, through word of mouth,
  Big Bird is out, he's in the house.
  He's turnin' up, with Snuffleup,
  They're really gettin' their hustle up.
  They stick together like Velcro,
  There Grover go, there's Elmo.
  And Cookie Monster there, look he likes
  To take selfies with his cell phone.
  They got a homegirl named Abby,
  Her last name is Cadabby,
  I showed her my report card,
  She said, 'Not too shabby!'
  They got all types of cool kids there,
  It's lots of fun if you live there,
  One thing I keep forgettin' about Sesame Street...
  How do you get there?

  Black Thought

  Fun, Rap, Kids

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• I guess I was a combination of House of Pain and Bobby Brown:
  I was humpin' around and jumpin' around!

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Pain, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Dead Wrong, Album: Born Again

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• The White House is a bully pulpit.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  White, Bully, Presidential

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• Well, my message is, is that if you harbor a terrorist, you're a terrorist. If you feed a terrorist, you're a terrorist. If you develop weapons of mass destruction that you want to terrorize the world, you'll be held accountable. . . . If anybody harbors a terrorist, they're a terrorist. If they fund a terrorist, they're a terrorist. If they house terrorists, they're terrorists. I mean, I can't make it any more clearly to other nations around the world. If they develop weapons of mass destruction that will be used to terrorize nations, they will be held accountable.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Mass Destruction, Presidential

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• I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Squad, White

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• We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Men, Vagabonds

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• The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Political, Principles, Different

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life.

  Ayn Rand

  Reality, Men, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.492, Penguin

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• Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

  Joyce Cary

  Reality, Littles, Prison

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• Rev Run is a living legend of Hip-Hop, who's still making great music, but now he's also the dad to an amazing family, ... This series takes us inside his world. It's a kind of a reality 'Father Knows Best' with comedy, heart, Hip-Hop and drama-all under one roof at Run's House.

  Tony DiSanto

  Running, Dad, Father

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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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• The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.

  Hunter Tylo

  Reality, Together, Losing

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• The reality is I believe there has never been in the history of our White House such an unscrupulous pair as what I witnessed in this White House.

  Linda Tripp

  Believe, Reality, White

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. February 9, 2001.

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• I believe the president wants this bill, and I know he's taken some steps to bring it about, ... The reality is that with a majority of the members of the House ready to vote for this bill, the speaker refused to call a roll call.

  Joe Lieberman

  Believe, Taken, Reality

  "No compromise yet on intelligence bill", www.cnn.com. November 29, 2004.

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