House Quotes

He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.

Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.

The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.

And what were the rules at St. Cloud's? What were Larch's rules? Which rules did Dr. Larch observe, which ones did he break, or replace--and with what confidence?

No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.

May Allah bless you." Or had she said: "May Allah burn you?" He was not sure which: the two Arabic words sounded so much alike.

The Al Saud believe they have an asset more powerful than the ballot box: they have Allah.

I don't know...just a feeling, like in..." Xander thought for a moment. "Star Wars. You know, when Han Solo says, 'I've got a bad feeling about this'?

And I knew then that there would be no telling me what he saw. I understand somehow that certain images, certain sounds, could not be shared and could not be lost.

The home is the most ritualized place in a society

Gomers are human beings who have lost what goes into being human beings. They want to die, and we will not let them.

To do nothing for the gomers was to do something, and the more conscientiously I did nothing the better they got.

It ain't easy to do nothing, now that society is telling everyone that their body is fundamentally flawed and about to self-destruct. People are afraid they're on the verge of death all the time

Keep climbing, ' he told himself.'Cheeseburgers, ' his stomach replied.'Shut up, ' he thought.'With fries, ' his stomach complained.

I had a crush on Percy, " Nico spat. "That's the truth. That's the big secret.

Yeah, well, ” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.

Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason gr

Bob says hello, " he told the stars.

You guys are so... dark. Even if I used flash, I'm not sure it would come out.""Y-yeah, " Percy managed. "You guys aren't photogenic.

Dude." Jason gave Percy a bear hug."Back from Tartarus!" Leo whooped. "That's my peeps!

Whenever he felt like giving up, plopping himself down, and dying (which was, like, every ten minutes), he reached over and took her hand, just to remember there was warmth in the world.

So . . . what is this fire river called?”“The Phlegethon, ” [Annabeth] said. “You should concentrate on going do

Nico drew his sword. His smile was even more unsettling than his scowl."Underground, " he said. "My favorite p

Nothing?" Favonius cried. "The one you care for most... plunged into Tartarus, and you still will not allow the truth?"Suddenly Jason felt like he was eavedrop

The story of Psyche finally made sense to him- why a mortal girl would be so afraid. Why would she risk breaking the rules to look the god of love in the face, because she feared he might be a mo

Oh, he's not like that, " said Favonius.Jason flinched. "You can read my

So now I get the scepter?" Jason

It is only through dialogue, deep listening, and passionate disagreement that we find our way to something larger than a singular and isolated point of view.

In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.

I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunlight and it’s weightless and I know it’s not cheap. It’s probably not even real.

Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.

Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God

Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors

A tongue in a bag. Teeth. A room drenched in blood.

The dreamy days and sticky nights of summer were already calling, as if anything could happen.

Some men will never be heroes, some heroes will never be men, he thought, with urgent acknowledgements to Joseph Conrad.

Which is when I decided I would never love anyone again because you just felt like an idiot when you put love out there and it didn't come back your way.

If there is a moral to this part of the story, and I distrust morals in the same way that I distrust beginnings, it is simply this: know that with which you deal.

What humanity wants most is crude sensation.Really? I thought what humanity wanted most was dignity.

Thanks to Obamacare, millions of Americans can visit a doctor’s office and see what a print magazine actually looks like.

The road simply ended. No cul-de-sac. No sign like the ones they had seen before: "Private Property. No Trespassing." Or "No Motorized Vehicles Beyond This Point." Just road...then trees.

Jack Kennedy brought an "intense concentration" and a "gently teasing humor" to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of "vacuum cleaning your brain.

You have left too much of yourself in this land for it not to be yours. I, too, will always be yours, for you have left too much of yourself with me for it to be otherwise.

Recognizing who you are is not the subtext of a life. It's the main point.

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.

In Morocco, " said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.