#house

Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#careful #chaste #clean #command #faithful

I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#away #bad #burned #calm #date

With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house. ↗

— Levon Helm

#best #drums #full #horns #house

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#bush #came #cheney #corporate #corporate interests

Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it. ↗

— Richard Morris Hunt

#best #build #chimney #down #following

But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should - the house, the car, the plane, the boat - what comes next? ↗

— Tom Hunter

#car #comes #creator #every #house

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#dave #does #her #housework #i

If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, the debt ceiling would've still been hit, because, those are bills that are coming in as a result of purchases and commitments made by the administration and the previous Congress. ↗

— Bill Johnson

#because #been #bills #ceiling #coming

‎"Repeat that?" "It's National Talk Like a Pirate Day. Didn't you know?" "Somehow I missed the memo." "You mean, 'Somehow I missed the memo, arrr!'" "Precisely. Arr. So, Mrs. Jack... Er, is that still your name? Or, I tremble to ask, have you adopted a pirate identity?" "Arr, matey, of course I have! It's..." She pulled an eggplant from the grocery bag. "Captain Eggplantier." She needed to stop speaking the first words that popped into her mind. "Captain Eggplanteir." He sounded very doubtful. "That's right. A family name. It's Belgian. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#becky-jack #felix #funny #humor #family

I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income. ↗

— Andrea Jung

#been #believe #decade #economic #empowerment