House Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Wall, Memories, Childhood

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• The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House Party.

  Gordon Strachan

  Party, Winning, Two

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• You just don't notice the time of your own metamorphosis. Until you do. Every once in a while time dissolves and you remember what you liked as a kid. You jump on your hotel bed, order dessert first, decide to put every piece of jewelry you own on your body and leave the house. Why? Because you can. Because you're the boss. Because... Ooooh. Shiny.

  Sloane Crosley

  Growing Up, Kids, Dessert First

  FaceBook post by Sloane Crosley from Nov 15, 2014

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• When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

  Origen

  Strong, Weather, May

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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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• We need to do more than win an election or win the House or win the presidency, my friends: we need to make this beloved country of ours God's country once again.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Winning, Religion

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• I have had to empty two family homes during the last few years - first, the house that had been my grandmothers since 1923, and then my own country home, which we had lived in for over twenty years.

  Penelope Lively

  Country, Home, Grandmother

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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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• I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Lying, Grief

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2011). “We Shall See God: Charles Spurgeon's Classic Devotional Thoughts on Heaven”, p.298, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus. What you’ve got is everything - and I mean everything - being run by the political arm. It’s the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis.

  John DiIulio

  Running, Mean, White

  "Bush’s Burgeoning Body Count" by Nick Turse, www.motherjones.com. November 28, 2005.

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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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• Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Space, Imagination, Solitude

  "'Large White House Speaking' by Mark Irwin" reviewed by Alexis Orgera, therumpus.net. April 23, 2014.

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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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• 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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• Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.

  Robert Sheckley

  War, Lines, Building

  Robert Sheckley (2014). “Dimension of Miracles”, p.59, Open Road Media

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• As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Children, Ruins, Bricks

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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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• God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house.

  Annie Oakley

  Men, Missing, Wells

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