Quotes About House

The other men also disarmed, as was suitable in the house of God, leaving an impressively bristling pile of lethality in the back pew.

The big white house glowed on the hill above them, tranquil in the afternoon light, the big red spruce behind it a looming but benign presence; not for the first time, he felt that the tree was somehow guarding the house—and in his present fragile mental state, found that notion a comfort.

There it was, Number 17; the neat brick three-story house that he'd rushed into—and out of—three days ago.

Going into his master's house to ravish his daughter's maidenhood—at her request? He had never heard of a less sensible prospect.

I have a house full of dead succulents but I was very attentive.

I never thought I would downgrade into a 4,000-square-foot house. It took me about two months to find places to put everything.

We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.

The art house is an elitist idea.

front courtyard of his house. In an inner courtyard

In the light snow on the slope behind our house I am skiing for the first time. I have to twist and turn so as not to hit the bare patches and so I'll stay within a sentence that is written in the snow as I glide down.

Paris had its sweetest smell, the smell of chestnut trees in bloom and of petrol with a few grains of dust that crack under your teeth like pepper. In the darknes the danger seemed to grow. You could smell the suffering in the air, in the silence. Everyone looked at their house and thought, "Tomorrow it will be in ruins, tomorrow I'l have nothing left.

Psalms 127:1." Slowly, Eaton leafed through the book, and then he said, "Is this it? 'Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Are you depressed or euphoric? The house, in its wisdom, seems to have taken advantage of your moments of euphoria to prepare itself to shelter you in your moments of depression.

on the façade of the house the lighted candles opened eyes of gold within the window frames.

Although the wind blows terribly here, the moonlight also leaks between the roof planks of this ruined house.

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

Well said the owner of the house she has a most idiotick run.

All the old stories have it wrong, because it's not the ghost that haunts the house; it's the house that haunts the ghost.

People tend to think of the soul as a man-shaped thing composed of a vague ghostlike substance. In reality it's more like some God-almighty haunted house, in which the rooms are constantly shifting, moving, and reconfiguring themselves.

All the old stories have it wrong, because it's not the ghost that haunts the house; it's the house that haunts the ghost. I feel lost out here, and everything reminds me that I'm not quite real. In the end it's always home that damns us.

driving through West Virginia, I heard a woman announce that she was looking to sell a house, 16 acres, a bowling ball, and a sequin dress slit up the side.

It is meet that my servant Joseph should have a house built in which to live & translate & again it is meet that my Servant Sidney should have a comfortable Room to live in."17 The

the soul's frail dwelling-house

Oh, no, ma'm, 'e's Lucifer himself, he is. Those eyes, they're colder than a January frost, they burn right through a body, they do. Beggin' yer pardon, ma'm, I don't think 'e ought to be allowed into the 'ouse, 'e's the very devil, 'e is!