House Quotes
The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.
Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.
The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.
The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.
I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.
Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.
Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.
He was making a brave attempt, but Jason could see the sadness lingering in his eyes. Something had happened to him... something to do with Calypso.
She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.
On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.
I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.
Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.
Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.
Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.
When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.
I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.
There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.
I've never understood why people run to get out of the rain in the summertime... People will drive miles and miles to go jump in a cool swimming hole, but when it rains, they scatter.
The Christian principles on which the country was primarily founded are rarely consulted other than for formalities of state, derision, or for the purpose of contrasts in the making of new laws.
Critics often point to historical issues such as slavery, upon which many Christians did act inconsistently, in an effort to invalidate Christian participation in contemporary social issues.
People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.
Homo-Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.
What you love, you must love all the harder because someday it will be gone.
A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.
We reveal ourselves in the metaphors we choose for depicting the cosmos in miniature.
Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own shrine.
It does no good to bark at the television, I said. I’ve tried it too. So he stopped.
Always take all the time to reflect that circumstances permit, but when the time for action has come, stop thinking. (Andrew Jackson)
Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.
We went our several ways, " said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.
Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.
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.
Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.
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
The dreamy days and sticky nights of summer were already calling, as if anything could happen.
