Mansions Quotes - Page 6

• But Tudor mansions on manicured grounds didn't look right with their grand front doors wide open to the night. It was like a debutante flashing her bra thanks to a wardrobe malfunction.

  J.R. Ward

  Night, Doors, Tudors

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.226, Penguin

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• When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.

  Isaac Watts

  Fear, Farewell, Eye

  Isaac Watts (1867). “The Penny Watts's Hymns ... Selected and Abridged from Dr. Watts's Hymns”, p.94

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• The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Keys, Doors, Hands

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• There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

  Richard Pryor

  Beautiful, Nice, Struggle

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• I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

  Naomie Harris

  Want, Rolls Royce, Persons

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• We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger. I looked at Sadie. “What do we do now?

  Rick Riordan

  Cat, World, Strange

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

  Aeschylus

  Eye, Home, Hands

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• The virtuous to those mansions go
  Where pleasures unembitter'd flow,
  Where, leading up a jocund band,
  Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand,
  Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales,
  Pipes softest music through the vales,
  And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd,
  With velvet carpet spread the ground;
  With livelier blush where roses bloom,
  And every shrub expires perfume.

  Charles Churchill

  Spring, Hands, Rose

  Charles Churchill (1762). “The Ghost”, p.38

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• I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press.

  Joanna Baillie

  Believe, Moving, Forever

  Joanna Baillie (1851). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume”, p.525

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• Once I saw Desjardins’ house, I hated him even more. It was a huge mansion on the other side of the Tuileries, on the rue des Pyramids. “Pyramids Road?” Sadie said. “Obvious, much?” “Maybe he couldn’t find a place on Stupid Evil Magician Street,” I suggested.

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Pyramids, Evil

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Dark, Men

  Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Coole Park and Ballylee, 1932"

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• Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Country, Blood, Land

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• We take fabulousness for granted sometimes. We forget what hard work it is. Indeed, when you consider the grueling hours your average celebrity puts in on the movie set and in the recording studio, when you think of them returning to their mansions so dead tired their drivers have to help them out of the car, well, it just makes you want to cry.

  Leonard Pitts

  Hard Work, Tired, Thinking

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• Contrary to popular belief, prosperity is an emotional state that has little to do with your wealth or the state of the economy. You can feel more prosperous in a one-room cottage than most wealthy people feel in a twenty-room mansion. Misers will hoard a lot of money and spendthrifts will spend whatever they have - you don't have to do either to feel prosperous. You may have to give up your secure, high-paying corporate job, however - and grow spiritually in the process.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Jobs, Giving Up, Emotional

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• I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing.

  Martin Scorsese

  Rain, Vocabulary, Darkness

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Tom [Courtenay] and Albert Finney met Ron Harwood on the dresser, so that's how it started. It's a wonderful documentary. It's called Tosca's Kiss and Mr Hardwood told me about it when I asked him what the genesis was. It was made in 1983 and Verdi, who was rich and successful, toward the end of his life decided to build a mansion for himself in Milan, where he lived, and he stipulated that when he died opera singers and musicians - because he knew so many who were no longer playing at the Scala and some were poor - could live there.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Successful, Kissing, Musician

  "Quartet - Dustin Hoffman interview". Press conference, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• How do these celebrities stay so impossibly thin? Simple: They have full-time personal trainers, who advise them on nutrition, give them pep talks, and shoot them with tranquilizer darts whenever they try to crawl, on hunger-weakened limbs, toward the packet of rice cakes that constitutes the entire food supply in their 37,000-square-foot mansions. For most celebrities, the biggest meal of the day is toothpaste (they use reduced-fat Crest).

  Dave Barry

  Simple, Squares, Cake

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• I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.

  Pharrell Williams

  Men, Ideas, Style

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

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• In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Majority, Favour, Finance

  "Are we back to the 1930s again? Here's why we shouldn't panic" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Most wealth is inconspicuous. The man down the street driving the nice car and living in the mansion could easily have greater debt and a lower net worth than the stealthy and wealthy plumber who drives a beat-up truck but seems to work only when he doesn't feel like fishing.

  Loral Langemeier

  Nice, Men, Fishing

  Loral Langemeier (2013). “The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Creating Cash with Wealth Cycle Investing”, p.228, McGraw Hill Professional

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• In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes.

  Albert Einstein

  Sports, Ambition, Intellectual

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.

  Khalil Gibran

  Song, Morning, Night

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.56, Lulu.com

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• Directly down the lawn and accross the Ellipse from the White House are those ordered, classic lines of the Jefferson Memorial and the eyes of the 19-foot statue that gaze directly into the White House, a reminder to any of us who might occupy that mansion of the quality of mind and generosity of heart that once abided there and has been so rarely seen there again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Eye, Heart, White

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, 'You're presidential material,'

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Morning, Guy, Presidential

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• Christ is already in that place of peace, which is all in all. He is on the right hand of God. He is hidden in the brightness of the radiance which issues from the everlasting throne. He is in the very abyss of peace, where there is no voice of tumult or distress, but a deep stillness--stillness, that greatest and most awful of all goods which we can fancy; that most perfect of joys, the utter profound, ineffable tranquillity of the Divine Essence. He has entered into His rest. That is our home; here we are on a pilgrimage, and Christ calls us to His many mansions which He has prepared.

  John Henry Newman

  Home, Voice, Issues

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, Aeterna Press

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