Quotes of: Affordable-housing Keyword

What she craved and really felt herself entitled to was a situation in which the noblest attitude should also be the easiest.

The House of Mirth

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

The House of Mirth

Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down

The House of Mirth

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel

There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.

The House Guest: Pathway to Persuasion

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

A House of Pomegranates

The Latter, I can tell, is added for my benefit. An assumption that the elderly cannot help but be impressed by the old fashioned.

The House at Riverton

He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.

The House of the Spirits

Esa noche creí que había perdido para siempre la capacidad de enamorarme, que nunca más podría reírme ni perseguir una ilusión. Pero nunca más es mucho tiempo.

The House of the Spirits

If someone tells you a lie, they're not telling you the truth, but they are telling you something. It just takes longer to figure out what.

The House on Fortune Street

It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover.

An Itinerant House, And Other Ghost Stories

The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Science and Hypothesis

He had his choice, and he liked the worst.

The Monster Den: or Look What Happened at My House — and to It

Mal denen şeye kendi varlığımız ya da halkın varlığı gibi tuhaf bir ad koymuşuz. Üstelik varlığını kaybetmek insanlar arasında ayıp ve budalalık sayılmış.

Matryona's House And Other Stories

They're Lares. House gods." "House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?

The Son of Neptune

There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind

If my home is indeed a sanctuary, I want to treat everything I bring into it as sacred.

The Wabi-Sabi House: The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty

In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality

The White House Years

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

Chronicles of the House of Borgia

... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.

The House of True Desire: Essays on Life and Literature

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell

The House of Life