All Quotes

A house divided against itself cannot stand.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.
‐‐ John Updike

A house in the country is not the same as a country house.
‐‐ Gertrude Stein

A house is a machine for living in.
‐‐ Le Corbusier

A house is kind of scary.
‐‐ Laura Dekker

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
‐‐ Margaret Fuller

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine.
‐‐ Moshe Safdie

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

A house isn't really understandable until it settles into the site: until it's built, furnished and lived in for four or five years. The reality is not on paper but in how a building sits on the land - how it relates to trees, to slopes, to water, to gardens.
‐‐ Jaquelin T. Robertson

A house must be bedded in the landscape. They both have to work together. In and out, every view from a window has to be sensational. Every view into the house must be the same to ensure continuity.
‐‐ Anouska Hempel

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
‐‐ Sai Baba

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
‐‐ May Sarton

A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.
‐‐ Anita Shreve

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
‐‐ Horace Mann

A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.
‐‐ Louis C. K.

A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing turned the corner last year, and it will take off in 2013.
‐‐ Mark Zandi

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.
‐‐ Michael Shermer

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
‐‐ Bil Keane

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.
‐‐ Bode Miller

A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.
‐‐ Clive Thompson

A huge amount of success in life comes from learning as a child how to make good habits. It's good to help kids understand that when they do certain things habitually, they're reinforcing patterns.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
‐‐ Jimmy Wales

A huge change has taken place in my lifetime.
‐‐ Michael King

A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty Dollar We Trust... Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty Dollar will continue to rule. It certainly is not ruling in our favor.
‐‐ Kyrsten Sinema

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.
‐‐ Clive Owen

A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.
‐‐ Jessica Valenti

A huge part of making something work is getting along with people you work with. You want them to succeed; you want them to bring their ideas to life as much as possible.
‐‐ Jonathan Krisel

A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.
‐‐ Missy Franklin

A huge part of what a kid learns when they're growing up is social and emotional development. As adults, we take it for granted that other people have emotions that are different from ours, and we can identify what they are, but those are skills that children have to learn.
‐‐ Tim Schafer

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
‐‐ Dan Savage

A huge part of youth is how you behave: I'm always looking for fun and anything that makes me feel alive - that in itself keeps me feeling young.
‐‐ Martine McCutcheon

A huge segment of the country has always felt overtaxed. In 1938, when taxes were roughly 17% of income, a 'Fortune' survey found that nearly half of all Americans thought they paid too much relative to what they got in return.
‐‐ Nina Easton

A huge thing for me growing up was going to see my favorite bands and feeling like, 'Okay, cool, they proved themselves and did things in a special way.' That's the most important thing.
‐‐ Kellin Quinn

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
‐‐ George Meredith

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
‐‐ Christopher Morley

A human being at rest runs on 90 watts. That's how much power you need just to lie down. And if you're a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you'll need about 250 watts. That's how much energy it takes to run about and find food.
‐‐ Geoffrey West

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
‐‐ Norman Cousins

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
‐‐ Mary Tyler Moore

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
‐‐ Meister Eckhart

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
‐‐ Jose Saramago

A human being is a deciding being.
‐‐ Viktor E. Frankl

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
‐‐ Eileen Caddy

A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating.
‐‐ Azzedine Alaia

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
‐‐ Horace Mann

A human being is only breath and shadow.
‐‐ Sophocles

A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique.
‐‐ Goran Persson

A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide.
‐‐ Peter Benchley

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
‐‐ Dorothy L. Sayers