House Quotes - Page 40

• A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Betrayal, Organization, America

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• Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Anger, Years, Guilt

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• I'm a vegetarian. I believe that we're all equal. I ain't got no right to kill. Say a fly comes in my house, I tolerate that little a**hole.

  Russell Brand

  Believe, Littles, Vegetarian

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• Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.

  Chris Chocola

  Suicide, Enemy, Would Be

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• One: Make Congress and the White House obey the same Obamacare rules you do. Two: Obama let business off for a year; we want workers to be let off for a year too. That’s the GOP plan. What part don’t you like?

  David Gelernter

  Years, Two, Obamacare

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• What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective. From that moment, my interest in their remarkable friendship was captivated, and it never really waned.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  White, Giving, Perspective

  "Madison's Chiaverini finds inspiration in Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker". Interview with Bobby Tanzilo, onmilwaukee.com. January 5, 2013.

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• People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Memories, Grandmother, People

  Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down the mountain road like a tank . . . I flag it down like an old friend. I've waited on this corner every Friday since I can remember. The Bookmobile is just a government truck, but to me it's a glittering royal coach delivering stories and knowledge and life itself. I even love the smell of books. People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count on the Bookmobile.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Beautiful, Wise, Friday

  "Big Stone Gap". Book by Adriana Trigiani, January 1, 2003.

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• Ludlow....is probably the loveliest town in England with its hill of Georgian houses ascending from the river Teme to the great tower of the cross-shaped church, rising behind a classic market building.

  John Betjeman

  Rivers, Church, Towers

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• There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Country, School, World Religions

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• Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

  Fergie

  Mom, Reading, Two

  "Fergie: The Superstar". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 1, 2010.

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• It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.

  Tabitha Soren

  Morning, White, Everyday

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• With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what [left-leaning songwriter] Steve Earle has to say.

  David Fricke

  Song, Art, Ostriches

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• Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

  William Kennedy

  Voice, Empty Rooms, Self

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• Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

  Ernest Poole

  Cutting, Tree, Meat

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• Women are racing all the time to try to have a perfect house and perfect kids and be a perfect cook. Men, somehow, for whatever reason, seem to be better able to pick and choose, to focus on things they like and that are important to them, and let the other things go.

  Debora Spar

  Kids, Men, Perfect

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• In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.

  Os Guinness

  Father, Distance, Home

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• There can be no progress on climate change without strong and aggressive leadership from the White House.  While we have been frustrated that it took until now, we find that the President’s plan contains plenty of smart proposals and pathways for action. Stonyfield stands firmly behind the President's vision.

  Gary Hirshberg

  Strong, Smart, White

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• A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

  Mark Rubinstein

  Eye, Imagination, Feelings

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• I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.

  Grace Hartigan

  Ideas, Bird, Trying

  "Contemporary Artists: A-K" by Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, (p. 680), 2002.

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• A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house… The law will of necessity have Indus[tr]ial features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Home, Eye, Army

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• We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on!

  Nicky Cruz

  Christian, Prayer, Home

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• On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

  Charles Sturt

  Emigration, Intention, Length

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during ... 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with observations on New South Wales”, p.58

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• This faith, is not like a deed to a house in which one may live with full rights of possession. It is more like a kit of tools with which a man may build himself a house. The tools will be worth just what he does with them. When he lays them down, they will have no value until he takes them up again.

  Lloyd C. Douglas

  Faith, Men, Rights

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• Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.

  Jandy Nelson

  Love, Wall, Book

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