House Quotes - Page 26

• Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over the sea: a house that is the spectre, the secret image of prison. The image of my nostalgia. Maybe I never desired, not even then, to escape from jail. Man is not meant to live freely in freedom, but to be free inside a prison.

  Curzio Malaparte

  Men, Islands, Rocks

  Curzio Malaparte (2007). “Woman Like Me”, p.7, Troubador Publishing Ltd

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• Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Home, Understood

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• What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.

  Jim Hightower

  White, Politician, Interest

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 1, 2003.

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• House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals.

  Ben Bernanke

  Strong, Past, Years

  Ben Bernanke's Testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 20, 2005.

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• If you hate my guts and have designs to hurt me, and I see you building a cannon aimed at my house, I am not going to wait for you to finish construction.

  Walter E. Williams

  Hurt, Hate, Design

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• Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Thinking, Cards, Made

  Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1991.

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• Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

  Yanni

  Knowing Who You Are, Bigs, Marble

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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• I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.

  Carole Landis

  Careers, Empty, Intention

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

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• Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

  Al Sharpton

  White, White House

  "Sharpton: Sexually-based issues dividing black churches" by Al Sharpton, www.cnn.com. October 20, 2006.

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• As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

  Charles Bass

  Hearing, Revelations, Select

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• Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.

  Candace Bushnell

  Country, Writing, Population

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• The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that was traditionthat's what I started with as an idea. But then making this in terms of the sizing and the use that was asked for by Live Oak Meeting- I mean it's a very traditional form, except it's convertible. The top opens, and it makes a sky space where sky is really brought down to you; your awareness of it is made quite different. It was a little bit of a novel idea, that it's a roof that opens.

  James Turrell

  Mean, Sky, Ideas

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• There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

  Linda Tripp

  Fighting, Media, Average

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• For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children

  Fred Thompson

  Children, May, Example

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• As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud of being able to help bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the region to create jobs and improve the area infrastructure.

  Nick Lampson

  Jobs, Texas, Dollars

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• The problem we have had on the budget all along is a lack of adult supervision on the part of the White House. You can't blame members of Congress for looking out for their parochial interests. It is the president's responsibility to look out for the national interest.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Responsibility, White, President

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• As co-chair of the Iraqi Women's Caucus in the House, I've enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with and hear from Iraqi women elected to serve in the new National Assembly.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Opportunity, Chairs, Assembly

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• I was living in a house with five guys, eating their leftovers when they weren't watching. I went from that to having $1-billion-plus on paper.

  Jeffrey Skoll

  Guy, Paper, Leftovers

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• A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.

  Horace Mann

  Government, People, Mad

  Horace Mann (1868). “Annual reports on education (ed. by mrs. M. Mann).”, p.687

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• A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down. Some people have written the story of my life representing as truth what in fact derives from ignorance, error or envy; but they cannot shake the truth from its place, even if they attempt to make others believe it.

  Haile Selassie

  Strong, Rain, Believe

  "My Life and Ethiopia's Progress : The Autobiography of Emperor Haile Sellassie" by Haile Selassie, translated by Edward Ullendorff, 1976.

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• What good is a dream house if you haven't got a dream?

  Julius Shulman

  Dream, Havens, Ifs

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• I was born with a lot of horsepower. There was a lot cooking inside me, a lot of energy, and Dad was a strong man by will and by intelligence, and the combination of us was almost bound to result in periodic explosions. He and I disagreed politically, very violently, and things would get hectic around the house.

  Richard Boone

  Strong, Dad, Men

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• At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator’s house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?

  Erick Erickson

  People, March, Idiot

  "At What Point Do People Revolt?" by Erick Erickson, www.redstate.com. March 31, 2009.

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• My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

  Jude Deveraux

  Art, Book, Play

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• Today I personally believe that while Jesus came to open the door to God's house, all human beings can walk through that door, whether they know about Jesus or not. Today I see it as my call to help every person claim his or her own way to God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Believe, Doors

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2008). “A Restless Soul: Meditations from the Road”

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