Top 48 Houghton Quotes

#1. They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#2. If there's one thing Gus Uhlenbeek's got, it's pace and determination.

Ray Houghton

#3. Tonight, I won't dream, because nobody
has held me and no hands have strayed and even
though I'm drunk with love, my arms are empty.

Melissa Lee-Houghton

#4. A man's best things are nearest him,
Lie close about his feet.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#5. The surprise, for me, is that the accruing weight of these departures doesn't bury us, and that even the pain of an almost unbearable loss gives way quite quickly to something more distant but still stubbornly gleaming.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

#6. Festinger argued that in reality we usually just find a way to ignore or discount dissonant information.

David Patrick Houghton

#7. I had learnt from going to Houghton that to make a room quiet, to make it harmonious, you never wanted to have only one 'mouvement' thng like the Savonnerie rug that would stand out. You must have 'mouvement' everywhere.

Nancy Lancaster

#8. Ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink.

Melissa Lee-Houghton

#9. When you get to Hell look for me; I'll be sitting in the hot-tub waiting."
Cate Harlow
FOR I HAVE SINNED
by Kristen Houghton
A Cate Harlow Private Investigation
due out in August, 2014

Kristen Houghton

#10. I walk with a dual longing
for life and for death.

Melissa Lee-Houghton

#11. Ji-Sung Park is probably not as young as he was when he arrived at Old Trafford all those years ago.

Ray Houghton

#12. I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#13. If you want an opinion concerning the Bible, why not take it from the lips of someone who has a real acquaintance with it.

William Henry Houghton

#14. No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.

Keith Houghton

#15. Women are a key part of the sound of the groups that accompany male singers like Kirk Franklin, Israel Houghton, and myself.

Fred Hammond

#16. You have risen with all power in Your hands. You have given me a second chance. Hallelujah, hallelujah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not going back, I'm moving ahead. Here to declare to You my past is over in You. All things are made new, surrendered my life to Christ. I'm moving, moving forward.

Israel Houghton

#17. Before they knew it, Ormsby Island would become a paranormal attraction like Waverly Hills or Houghton Mansion or the Whaley House. The place would be crawling with people anxious to catch a ghost on camera or audio.

Hunter Shea

#18. Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.

John T. Houghton

#19. Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

Desmond Tutu

#20. Many unbelievers have threatened or prophesied the destruction of the Bible. Few people know the names of the skeptics. Everyone knows the names of Moses and Isaiah and Luke and Paul.

William Henry Houghton

#21. Can every anguish calmly bear.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#22. It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#23. The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#24. When I'd woken the next morning, I'd done so in a dislocated world of dimmed daylight and diluted colors, a sodden world, feeling like I was a castaway on an alien planet.

Keith Houghton

#25. Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#26. Lily Houghton-Miller stood in the middle of my living room and surveyed me with the detached interest of a scientist gazing at a new variety of manure-based invertebrate.

Jojo Moyes

#27. The beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#28. The sun, however, was shining, and as he stepped into the light Rial felt his spirits revived by its rays. He

L.D. Houghton

#29. Nature's heart beats strong amid the hills.

Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton

#30. My exit is the result of too many entrees.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#31. Fancifully, I had thought I would feel the exact moment if anything ever happened to Scarlett, even if she wasn't nearby. Some kind of immense magnetic disturbance as our two hemispheres divided and went their separate ways.

Keith Houghton

#32. There's one thing about Kyriagos - he's tall, he's physical and he's slow

Ray Houghton

#33. Don't offer God partnership when he wants penitence. Don't present him with lip service when He wants your life.

William Henry Houghton

#34. He who for love hath undergone
The worst that can befall,
Is happier thousandfold than one
Who never loved at all.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#35. What's the point of having shimmery feet?

Chantelle Houghton

#36. My soul was made in heaven, but my spirit has been forged in hell.

Keith Houghton

#37. I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.

Melissa Lee-Houghton

#38. Liverpool have played with no real convention

Ray Houghton

#39. Strength is for service, not status

Israel Houghton

#40. As long as one refuses to know one's place, there's no telling what one can do in the world.

Candace Bushnell

#41. Many times we say Jesus is first in our life, and i get that, but Jesus should not be first, He should be center of everything.

Israel Houghton

#42. Contrary to the movies, police work does not consist solely of chasing after the bad guy down dark, forbidding alleyways. Most of the real chasing is done sitting behind a desk with a telephone glued to the ear, hunting down new leads and investigating paper trails.

Keith Houghton

#43. Grand Thoughts that never can be wearied out,
Showing the unreality of Time.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

#44. Haters are like crickets. Crickets make a lot of noise, you hear it but you can't see them, then right when you walk by them, they're quiet.

Israel Houghton

#45. When you get to Hell, I'll be sitting in the hot tub waiting."
Cate Harlow, PI

Kristen Houghton

#46. I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.

Patrick DeWitt

#47. I'd painted that night sky long ago, adding a star each time I lost someone I cared for deeply. Every star bore a name, and I called out each aloud as I counted.

C.S. Houghton

#48. Love will always be the most powerful force.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

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