Use Quotes - Page 81

Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.

Happiness is not found, it is created. Happiness does not depend on all that we lack, but on the way in which we use all that we have

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.

The world can be a challenging and difficult place in which to live. We are often surrounded by that which would drag us down. As you and I go to the holy houses of God, as we remember the covenants we make within, we will be more able to bear every trial and to overcome each temptation. In this sacred sanctuary we will find peace; we will be renewed and fortified.

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

I bought a house on a one-way dead-end road. I don’t know how I got there.

About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those I had seen in the houses of Russian peasants. When it was finished, the arrangement of the pieces of material seemed to me to evoke cubist conceptions and we then tried to apply the same process to other objects and paintings.

Time is money, every moment is costly, So I ration emotion, 'cause existence exhausts me.

When I hear excuses muttered from another, I'm reminded to stop repeating those of my own.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

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.

Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'll tell you to move it back, clean it up, throw it in the trash - don't matter, just get rid of it. I need stuff neat, organized. And once I start cleaning stuff, I don't stop until it's done. Otherwise I'm irritated all day.

We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots.

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives and forks they created rules. Picasso would never have accepted rules. The house is like a machine? No! The mechanical is ugly. The rule is the worst thing. You just want to break it.

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.