
„Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.“
— Shams-i Tabrizi 1185-1248, spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi. 1185 - 1248
Me & Rumi (2004)
A collection of quotes on the topic of housing, house, likeness, people.
„Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.“
— Shams-i Tabrizi 1185-1248, spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi. 1185 - 1248
Me & Rumi (2004)
„One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.“
— Pam Brown Australian poet 1948
„To bear children into this world is like carrying wood into a burning house.“
— Peter Wessel Zapffe Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer, and author 1899 - 1990
As quoted in Reflekser i trylleglass: stemmer fra vårt århundre [Magical Reflections : Voices of Our Century] (1998) edited by Haagen Ringnes
„Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.“
— Emily Dickinson, book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Variant: Art is a house that tries to be haunted.
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
„A house is not a home until it has a dog.“
— Gerald Durrell naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter 1925 - 1995
„In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming“
— H.P. Lovecraft, book The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Source: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
„Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.“
— Jane Austen, book Emma
Source: Emma (1815)
„A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.“
— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, book The Leopard
Un palazzo del quale si conoscessero tutte le stanze non era degno di essere abitato.
Page 128
Il Gattopardo (1958)
„May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.“
— George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008
„A house divided against itself cannot stand.“
— Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.
In this famous statement, Lincoln is quoting the response of Jesus Christ to those who accused him of being able to cast out devils because he was empowered by the Prince of devils, recorded in Matthew 12:25: "And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand".
1850s, The House Divided speech (1858)
Total 3220 quotes housing, filter:
— H.L. Mencken American journalist and writer 1880 - 1956
Source: On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
— Jesse Owens American track and field athlete 1913 - 1980
As quoted in "Owens pierced a myth" http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016393.html (2005), by Larry Schwartz, ESPN SportsCentury
— Jimmy Carter American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981) 1924
„I'm gonna pick up the pieces,
and build a Lego house.
When things go wrong we can knock it down.“
— Ed Sheeran English singer-songwriter and producer 1991
Song lyrics, + (2011)
— Wangari Maathai Kenyan environmental and political activist 1940 - 2011
On her opposition to the construction of a skyscraper in Nairobi, Kenya, as quoted in the article Wangari Maathai:"You Strike The Woman ..." by Priscilla Sears in the quarterly In Context #28 (Spring 1991)
„No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it.“
— Frank Lloyd Wright American architect (1867-1959) 1867 - 1959
Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography (1932) page 168
Context: No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
„Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.“
— William Morris author, designer, and craftsman 1834 - 1896
„There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.“
— Vasily Grossman, book Life and Fate
Source: Life and Fate
„Sunlight comes into your house not because you want it. It happens because you open the windows.“
— Sadhguru Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian 1957
Source: Of Mystics & Mistakes
— Helena Bonham Carter British actress 1966
Of her relationship with Tim Burton
Guardian interview 3 Nov 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2006/nov/03/1
— Sophia Loren Italian actress 1934
As quoted in Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story (1979) by A. E. Hotchner, p. 63.
— Takeda Shingen Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period 1521 - 1573
William Scott Wilson, Gregory Lee. Ideals of the Samurai: Writings of Japanese Warriors, 1982. p 95
— Walter Raleigh English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer 1554 - 1618
"On the Life of Man" (1612)
Attributed
— Babur 1st Mughal Emperor 1483 - 1530
https://archive.org/stream/baburnama017152mbp/baburnama017152mbp_djvu.Txt
— Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974
http://www.flixster.com/actor/leonardo-di-caprio/leonardo-dicaprio-quotes
„Is Brooklyn in the house? Without a doubt, I'm the rapper with clout everybody yap about.“
— The Notorious B.I.G. American rapper 1972 - 1997
"Get Money Remix"
Song lyrics
— David Hilbert German prominent mathematician 1862 - 1943
Hilbert-Courant (1984) by Constance Reid, p. 143
— Anton LaVey, book The Satanic Bible
The Satanic Bible (1969)
— Greta Thunberg, book No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
2019, World Economic Forum (January 2019)
Source: Greta Thunberg, 16, urges leaders to act on climate, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/25/our-house-is-on-fire-greta-thunberg16-urges-leaders-to-act-on-climate (25 January 2019)
Cited in ', Penguin Books, 2019, pages 19-24 (ISBN 9780141991740).
„Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.“
— Pablo Neruda Chilean poet 1904 - 1973
Variant: Like a jar you housed infinite tenderness
And the infinite tenderness shattered you like a jar.
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
— Sarah Dessen, book What Happened to Goodbye
What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
„If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.“
— Khaled Hosseini, book And the Mountains Echoed
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
— Dylan Thomas, book Under Milk Wood
Source: " Under Milk Wood http://www.undermilkwood.net/prose_umw1.html" (1954)
— Henry Beston American writer 1888 - 1968
Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
— Arthur Conan Doyle Scottish physician and author 1859 - 1930
Source: Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
„I live perfectly in my house. I am supported by subscriptions for what they are bald.“
— PewDiePie Swedish YouTuber and video game commentator 1989
— Mitch Hedberg American stand-up comedian 1968 - 2005
Mitch All Together (2003)
— Muhammad Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam 570 - 632
Sahih Bukhari Volume 001, Book 011, Hadith Number 617.
Sunni Hadith
— Leonid Brezhnev General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1906 - 1982
Reported as false in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 9-10. Falsely attributed to Brezhnev as having been said in a secret Warsaw Pact meeting in either 1968 or 1973.
Misattributed
— Frederick Brotherton Meyer English Baptist pastor and evangelist 1847 - 1929
The Secret of Guidance (1896)
„From henceforth, no medicine, no doctors, no drugs of any kind shall come into this house. \“
— Smith Wigglesworth British evangelist 1859 - 1947
Pledging his commitment to Faith Healing.
Page 38
The Complete Story: A New Biography on the Apostle of Faith By Julian Wilson http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=e2RWZpOHfmoC|Wigglesworth:
— Michio Kushi Japanese educator 1926 - 2014
Source: Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom (1994, with Edward Esko), p. 4
— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009
November 2005 reported by report by NY Post https://nypost.com/2005/11/23/jerko-jackos-ugly-jabs-at-jews-calls-them-leeches-on-tape/
— Malcolm Muggeridge English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist 1903 - 1990
Confessions of a Twentieth-Century Pilgrim (1988)
— Matthew Perry (actor) American actor 1969
Marc Peyser (September 4, 2006) "Falling for Fall: What's Cool and Coming Your Way: Summer's ending. Get over it. Here's a look at the riches of autumn. First up, 'West Wing' creator Aaron Sorkin rides again with the terrific TV drama 'Studio 60.'", Newsweek, Newsweek Inc., p. 54.
— Démosthenés ancient greek statesman and orator -384 - -322 BC
Olytnhiac II, 10 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0070%3Aspeech%3D2%3Asection%3D10
Original: (el) ὥσπερ γὰρ οἰκίας, οἶμαι, καὶ πλοίου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν τοιούτων τὰ κάτωθεν ἰσχυρότατ᾽ εἶναι δεῖ, οὕτω καὶ τῶν πράξεων τὰς ἀρχὰς καὶ τὰς ὑποθέσεις ἀληθεῖς καὶ δικαίας εἶναι προσήκει
— Patch Adams Physician, activist, diplomat, author 1945
Source: House Calls: How we can all heal the world one visit at a time (1998), p. 129
"The Paradox of Our Age"; these statements were used in World Wide Web hoaxes which attributed them to various authors including George Carlin, a teen who had witnessed the Columbine High School massacre, the Dalai Lama and Anonymous; they are quoted in "The Paradox of Our Time" at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/paradox.asp
Words Aptly Spoken (1995)
„Haven't you heard that this house belongs to an ogre who eats little children?“
— Charles Perrault French author 1628 - 1703
Tales of Mother Goose, 1727, "Little Thumb"
— Frida Kahlo Mexican painter 1907 - 1954
9 September 1950
Source: 1946 - 1953, "Song of herself"; interviews by Olga Campos, Sept. 1950, Chapter 'My life', p. 64
— Fanny Kemble English actress and writer 1809 - 1893
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, ch. 1 (1863).
„Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.“
— Marilyn vos Savant US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer 1946
Attributed in Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (1991)
— Ali Khamenei Iranian Shiite faqih, Marja' and official independent islamic leader 1939
2016, Hajj hijacked by oppressors, Muslims should reconsider management of Hajj (September 2015)
— Ransom Riggs, book Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children
Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011), Chapter 3, Page 81
„No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.“
— Benjamin Disraeli British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister 1804 - 1881
Theory held by Disraeli, cited in Sir William Fraser, Disraeli and his Day (1891), p. 142.
Sourced but undated
— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Tamil politician and social reformer 1879 - 1973
Veeramani, Collected Works of Periyar, p. 517.
Aryanism
„Are you going to put me under house arrest or put me on Robben Island?“
— Helen Suzman South African politician 1917 - 2009
As quoted in Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201816/http://hsf.org.za/about-us/helen-suzman/suz01.pdf (2005), by Millie Pimstone, South Africa: The Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies
1960s
— Sofia Rotaru Ukrainain soviet and Ukrainian musician, singer, songwriter, actress, author of Moldavian origin 1947
— Linda Smith comedian 1958 - 2006
I suppose we could have swapped them for books, but we had our eye on a twin-tub.
Stand-up
— Walter Bagehot, book The English Constitution
No. III, "The Monarchy (continued)", p. 58
The English Constitution (1867)
— John Locke, book Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Sec. 70
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
— Jane Goodall British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist 1934
Source: Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey (2000), p. iv
— Galén Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher 129 - 216
Galen, Exhortation to Study the Arts, Coxe (1846), p. 479; cf. Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 32.
— John of the Cross Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint 1542 - 1591
En una noche oscura,
con ansias, en amores inflamada,
¡oh dichosa ventura!,
salí sin ser notada,
estando ya mi casa sosegada;
One dark night, fired with love's urgent longings — ah, the sheer grace! —
I went out unseen, my house being now all stilled.
In darkness, and secure, by the secret ladder, disguised, — ah, the sheer grace! — in darkness and concealment, my house being now all stilled.
Variant translation by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez (1991)
Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast
And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest.
Shrouded by the night and by the secret stair I quickly fled.
The veil concealed my eyes while all within lay quiet as the dead
Variant adapted for music by Loreena McKennitt (1994)
Dark Night of the Soul
— William Wilberforce English politician 1759 - 1833
"On the Horrors of the Slave Trade", speech delivered in the House of Commons (12 May 1789).
— Sita Ram Goel Indian activist 1921 - 2003
Hindu Temples – What Happened to Them, Volume II (1993)
— Rich Mullins American christian musician 1955 - 1997
Lufkin, Texas http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/lufkin-texas-jul1997-full.html (July 19, 1997)
In Concert
— Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Indian independence activist 1890 - 1988
Quoted in Eknath Easwaran, A Man to Match his Mountains: Bacha Khan, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam (Nilgiri Press, Petaluma, 1984), p. 25.
— Whoopi Goldberg American actress 1955
Whoopie Goldberg "“When I was 9 years old, Star Trek came on…” ~ Whoopi Goldberg" http://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/03/when-i-was-9-years-old-star-trek-came-on-whoopi-goldberg/ March 8, 2014.
„And if the big dog ain't me, then the house won't get guarded—period.“
— Shaquille O'Neal American basketball player 1972
[Wise, Mike, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/11/sports/pro-basketball-tension-between-o-neal-and-bryant-is-rising-every-day.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm, PRO BASKETBALL; Tension Between O'Neal and Bryant Is Rising Every Day, January 11, 2001, The News York Times]
O'Neal implying his level of defensive play would drop if he were not the team's featured option on offense.