To Set Our House In Order Quotes

#1. Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. If the house is to be set in order, ...

John Hope Franklin

#3. Set thy house in order, for thou shalt die and not live." ~ Isaiah 38:1

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#4. 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.

Henri Poincare

#5. I believe that a country's first duty is to set its own house in order; and having set its own house in order, it can contribute better to the community of the world. Instead of being a weak link, it should be a strong link.

George Cadle Price

#6. A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

Honore De Balzac

#7. If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

John Hope Franklin

#8. I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set their house in order; nor must you compel them to be happy.

Patrick O'Brian

#9. To acknowledge evil, without being consumed by it."
Penny (Mouse), in "Set this House in Order

Matt Ruff