Use Quotes - Page 169

Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

Minimize the user's memory load by making objects, actions, and options visible. The user should not have to remember information from one part of the dialogue to another. Instructions for use of the system should be visible or easily retrievable whenever appropriate.

There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought I was. My major problem, inadequate or inappropriate love from my parents, was as common as dirt. And one rainy day, all the boring poignancy of these realizations detonated in me like an atom bomb, burning the dead shadow of each former torment or preoccupation onto solid rock. Those silhouettes, that record would remain: the museum where I used to be.

Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.

A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

[On the House Un-American Activities Committee] They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem.

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.'

Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.

The reason God can't use you more than He wants to may well be that you are not prepared.

It is well to remember that the office of Chief Executive is in part a symbol of the nation and that leaders in a nation may differ in their own house but they have instant solidarity in the presence of foreign attack

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

More matches are lost through carelessness at the beginning than any other cause.

History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.

Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans. Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they've been fixed, then they are happy and sedate. They are contented and cheerful. They don't go around peeing on the furniture and such.

There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as you pass by. A person can be very, very tiny. And a billboard can make a person very large. You see the corner of a house or you see a bird fly by, and it's all fragmented. Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have a very pretentious idea that I want to make life, I want to make sense out of it. The fact that I am doomed to failure - that doesn't deter me in the least.

I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I'm not stingy.

Prayer does not cause faith to work, faith causes prayer to work.