House Quotes
7440 House quotes by 4410 unique authors
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The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing…
— H. L. Mencken
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One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't…
— T. Harv Eker
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Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening…
— John Ruskin
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Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.
— Ronald Reagan
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I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching…
— Julian Huxley
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the…
— Francis Collins
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Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food…
— Abraham Lincoln
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A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
— Paul Gauguin
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It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot,…
— Thomas Brooks
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You said that you wanted to put us upon a reservation, to build us houses and make us medicine lodges. I was born where there…
— Ten Bears
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Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots…
— C.S. Lewis
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I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to…
— Alexander McQueen
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When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a…
— Claude Monet
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It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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He had handed his daughter to Caroline Gill and that act had led him here, years later, to this girl in motion of her own,…
— Kim Edwards
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I did research when I was pregnant with my first daughter and was horrified by the chemicals in products, even those meant for babies. I…
— Jessica Alba
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I don't know how anybody can work at home. I know I can't. It's just... there's too much to do at the house, and now,…
— Daniel H. Wilson
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I hope my daughter knows that in our house we can make messes and have fun and we'll laugh through it. Granted I don't want…
— Angela Kinsey
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My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
— Milla Jovovich
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No, I'm putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big…
— Ewan McGregor
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We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know…
— Mitch McConnell
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A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that!
— John F. Kennedy
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Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded…
— Lachlan Murdoch
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