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"I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like too much security. There's no freedom. I'm a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second."
"Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house."
"I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure."
"In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields."
"Are you currently at your house?" he asked. "Um, no," I said. "That was a trick question. I knew the answer, because I am currently at your house."
"I love my house. I love my family. I love my animals."
"I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids."
"There's many a slip twixt the blueprints and a new house."
""I'm going to show you I haven't given you permission because clearly you're not grown up enough to understand that, not having given you permission, you can't just come look in my house." And I won't know if they're coming and looking or not... so I put a piece of tape over it."
"My mom would be leaving the house and she'd say, 'Don't you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!' And the door would close, and that's exactly what I'd do. The show was calling me!"
"The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death."
"Maxine Waters is a Democrat from California in her 13th term. She is a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee. She is among the six-dozen Democratic lawmakers who boycotted Donald's Trump inauguration. She did participate in the women's march."
"My view is that if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House. Can't do it."
"One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged."
"Every one in his own house and God in all of them."
"Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged."
"Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him."
"One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house."
"When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with my wife?" there is no answer to be made."
"My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?"
