Quotes with house-the

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  • Elizabeth Bowen Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Oscar Wilde Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Robert Southey Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough:
    Man meets woman, and they fall in love,
    But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough.
    You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.
    Tunnel Of Love (1987) Tunnel of Love
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bill Huizenga Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.
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  • Bob Saget People ask me what my favorite episode of Full House is; it was the last one!
    Bob Saget: That Aint Right (2007)
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Bryn Terfel People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you're tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Robin Williams People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
    Rolling Stone Interview, 1988
    Robin Williams
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1951 - 2014)
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  • Booth Tarkington People used to say of the two Oliphant brothers that Harlan Oliphant looked as if he lived in the Oliphant's house, but Dan didn't.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Barbara Olson Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Bill Cosby Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Poverty is very good in poems, but it is very bad in a house. It is very good in maxims and sermons, but it is very bad in practical life.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Barack Obama Since I'm the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it's understandable that people are saying, you know, 'What have you done?
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Carey Mulligan Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
    Barbara Bush: A Memoir
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Benjamin Banneker Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Charles Dickens Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • William Lloyd Garrison Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.
    William Lloyd Garrison
    American abolitionist, journalist and suffragist (1805 - 1879)
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