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Letter "L" » lodging
«Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.»
Author: Adam Smith
| Keywords:
conveniences, delicacies, delicacy, employed, food supply, improvement, liking, lodges, lodging, lodgings, necessities, niceties, nicety, procured, procures, procuring, supply, tastes
«One way to find your place is likethe rain, a million requestsfor lodging, one that wins, findsyour cheek: you find your home.»
«Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by / Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie / A little further, to make thee a room; / Thou art a monument without a tomb.»
«The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Government,
Power
| Keywords:
abuse, abuse of power, liable, lodged, lodges, lodging
«Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
adventures, an episode, at parties, episode, episodes, lodged, lodges, lodging, lump, lumped, lumps, obscure, standardized, Thirty two, Thirty Years, whatsoever
«Wither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me»
Author: Bible
| About:
Christianity,
Death and dying,
God
| Keywords:
aught, buried, lodge, lodges, lodging, wither
«When I consider how my light is spent / Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, / And that one talent which is death to hide, / Lodged with me useless.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
Darkest Days, Dark Days, hide, lodged, lodges, lodging, spent, The Light of Day, useless, wide
«Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic -- if it is pulled out I shall die.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
barb, barbed, earliest, early childhood, ironic, lodged, lodging, pulled, stays
«O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
| Keywords:
boundless, contiguity, lodge, lodges, lodge in, lodging, rumour, shade, unsuccessful, wilderness
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