All Quotes

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
‐‐ George Edward Moore

The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.
‐‐ Alaya Dawn Johnson

The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are.
‐‐ Joe Henderson

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
‐‐ Oliver Goldsmith

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
‐‐ Marguerite Duras

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.
‐‐ John Owen

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.
‐‐ John Jakes

The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards.
‐‐ Christopher Monckton

The House Freedom Caucus has the same agenda today as it did yesterday, and that is to try to address the needs of each of our constituents, address the concerns the voters have been saying they have for a long time.
‐‐ Scott Garrett

The House has passed several bipartisan bills to ensure all Americans have the opportunity to secure a good job to provide for their families. All of these jobs bills deserve the support of our Senators and a strong show of leadership from the president.
‐‐ Joe Heck

The House has repeatedly had overwhelming votes in support of continuing the Yucca Mountain repository.
‐‐ Rodney Frelinghuysen

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
‐‐ Adolf Loos

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
‐‐ Adolf Loos

The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.
‐‐ Patti Davis

The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.
‐‐ Philippa Gregory

The house is a factory.
‐‐ Dave Eggers

The house is always full, and we're always cooking - outside, inside, for six, eight, a dozen, 20 people.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.
‐‐ Marian McPartland

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.
‐‐ Charles W. Pickering

The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.
‐‐ Clarence Stein

The House Judiciary Committee is a great place to promote our core principles of constitutionally limited government, individual freedom and the rule of law.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.
‐‐ Lajos Kossuth

The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.
‐‐ Christopher Gadsden

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
‐‐ A. E. Housman

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
‐‐ Edward Young

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

The House of Lords has many fine aspects, but at its heart, it is a betrayal of the core democratic principle that those in the enlightened world hold so dear - that those who make the laws of the land should be elected by those who must obey those laws.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.
‐‐ Clement Attlee

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
‐‐ Tony Benn

The House of Lords says I'm not a member of it. My passport says I am - get used to it.
‐‐ Christopher Monckton

The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.
‐‐ Nancy Pelosi

The House of Representatives should not be locked down by the decided play of a few in leadership.
‐‐ Jeff Fortenberry

The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.
‐‐ Neal Boortz

The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough.
‐‐ Sarah Brady

The House-passed FY2012 Budget Resolution does two very important things: it ensures that seniors 55 and older will continue to receive the same Medicare benefits they received in 2010, and it ensures Medicare for individuals under age 55 by saving Medicare from insolvency and providing, for the first time, a real choice for the future.
‐‐ Rob Woodall

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.
‐‐ Jan Schakowsky

The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.
‐‐ Hunter Tylo

The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
‐‐ Natalie Cole

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
‐‐ Germaine Greer

The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.
‐‐ Brian Blessed

The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christ's glorious body.
‐‐ Edward McKendree Bounds

The housing market will get worse before it gets better.
‐‐ James Wilson

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.
‐‐ Franco Harris

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
‐‐ Gene Tierney

The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for different reasons.
‐‐ Artie Lange

The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow.
‐‐ Lee J. Cobb

The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.
‐‐ Simon Armitage

The Hudson's Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north.
‐‐ Ernest Thompson Seton