House Quotes - Page 4

The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Invest your energy into something more worthwhile.

I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.

Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.

I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other in-house, we wound up beating our rivals.

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on

The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

Debt is so ingrained into our culture that most Americans can't even envision a car without a payment ... a house without a mortgage ... a student without a loan ... and credit without a card. We've been sold debt with such repetition and with such fervor that most folks can't conceive of what it would be like to have NO payments.

When I'm old and gray, I want to have a house by the sea. And paint. With a lot of wonderful chums, good music, and booze around. And a damn good kitchen to cook in.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.