House Quotes
from under the ground, from under the waters, they clutch at us, they clutch at us, we won’t let go.
Freedom is a rare gift... Quite easily taken for granted and even more easily taken away.
Freedom without order leads to chaos. We must have order around our freedom. It is God’s Word that sets the boundaries for our freedom.
Oh, good. Okay, I'd like to get more sleep before I have to figure out how we find a Sith Lord in Washington.
There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made, " you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.
Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
He turned to Miss Minerva. "I'm relying on you, at any rate. You've got a good mind. Anybody can see that.""Thank you, " she said."As good as a man's, " he added."Oh, now you've spoiled it!
Trouble is you never knew her. Died too soon. It's always a pity when they die too soon, but maybe it's worse when they live too long.
Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change, ' she said with a sigh.
You are ruin and chaos to them, but you are lovely to my eye.''You're brave or daft, then, ' she said, quite rightly. 'Chaos and ruin. Where does that leave me, then?
Nature is cruel. Isn't that right, Daddy? Every living thing has to die. And they're still beautiful. Now they'll stay that way.
The trick and the beauty of language is that it seems to order the whole universe, misleading us into believing that we live in sight of a rational space, a possible harmony.
What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely-mingled elements, the beauty and the majesty which are compelled to assume a garb so sordid.
The human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always.
I love you, " Matt said.I love you, too, " Maria replied. "I know that's a sin, and I'll probably go to hell for it."If I have a soul, I'll go with you, " promised Matt.
The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives.
That’s what great art does—that’s why these men and women counted. It shows us what makes life worth living.
Those afternoons in the library, breathing the stale sun-warmed dust of a thousand stories (accented by the collective mildew of a hundred years of rising damp), had been enchanted.
Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.
The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away.
One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other's words
One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other's words.
I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are--or, at all events, that I must try and become one.
Men and women are hard ore, we do not go to slag in a mere few seasons of forge.
Angels do not toil, but let their good works grow out of them.
...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.
Water purling between the rocks, weed under the surface like green hair in the wind.
A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt.
In your attempts to heal this beloved one, the Holy Spirit finds opportunity to keep the promise of Jesus - and indeed, to heal.
A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch of cherry pies.
The Little Drummer Boy" was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy seneless with his own drumsticks.
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.
Love I must forego. I am not a man with an income.
For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.
That's what it means to be an American. To be free to love who and what you want, and to keep a lot in your heart at once.
Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?"I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?
he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.
Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.
Experience has taught me the power of trophies. You may have every knick-knack and useless contraption ever devised, but while they weigh you down, a simple trophy can go a long, long way.
When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our journey.
Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.
This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards,