"I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis"

-- Alfred Dreyfus

#House Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Guilt Quotes

“It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.”
“Echo of your thoughts has greater impact on the world than your actions.”
“It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually.”
“Willow nestled against him. He smoothed her long hair down the back of her T-shirt, feeling its softness. In a few moments she fell asleep again, her breathing warm and regular against his chest. Alex kissed her head, his arms tightening around her. As he drifted back to sleep himself, he saw a brief flash of the thousands of angels streaming in, but right then it seemed distant, almost unimportant. The only thing that mattered was that he was lying in a bed holding Willow, their bare legs entwined. It was all he wanted to do for the rest of his life.”
“It is nasty when you're playing in someone else's house to point out that they don't have enough balls.”
“The proper course of action, when under attack, is usually to counterattack.”
“In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband.”
“We are a great nation because we are a good people.”

Source : Elizabeth Dole's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. August 31, 2004.

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