Quotes About Domestic

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.

To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.

Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

Normally, your wife can hear things that no one else on earth can hear. She can hear a dab of jam fall onto a carpet two rooms away. She can hear spilled coffee being furtively mopped up with a good bathtowel. She can hear dirt being tracked across a clean floor. She can hear you just thinking about doing something you shouldn't do. But get yourself stuck in a loft hatch and suddenly it is as if she has been placed in a soundproof chamber.

economist Henri Truchy noted: We judged it better to content ourselves with the untroubled possession of the domestic market than to risk the hazards of the world market, and we built a solid fortress of tariffs. Within the boundaries of this limited, but assured market, the French live calmly, comfortably enough, and leaving to others the torment of great ambition, are no more than spectators in the struggles for economic supremacy.16

The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.

The fury with which Japan unleashed itself upon international trade, the kind of economic Darwinism that was at the center of its impulse, originally came not just from each company's desire to conquer the world but from its desire to take market share away from domestic competitors. In Japan there was always someone ready to undersell someone else, and there was always someone on the edge of bankruptcy.

The problem with military policies that are built to domestic specifications and do not take into account the complexity of the real world is that eventually the real world intrudes.

Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.

The God of the incarnation is more domestic than monastic.

I can deal with fighting in the arena in Hell, but laundry and dishes put the fear of God in me.

Domestic rabbits don't have the sense that God promised animal crackers.

I'm a very good dishwasher. I'm a terrible cook. I'm an awful cook.

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide for the common defense and insure domestic tranquility.

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.