Top 1200 Houses Of Parliament Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

People have become disillusioned with Parliament, and that threatens democracy.

Parliament is relentless, it never stops.

Dew depends not on Parliament.

England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

I'm passionate about parliament democracy.

Poorpeoplestaying intheir houses aslong astill thevery fire touched them, and then running into boats or clambering from one pair of stair by the waterside to another. And among other things, the poor pigeons I perceive were loath to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they were some of them burned, their wings, and fell down.

The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.

I love Parliament Funkadelic.

To engage all sides of Parliament in a common national cause is not unpatriotic.

At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

Parliament alone is sovereign.

Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.

Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.

There's not enough of us in the Northern Territory in Federal Parliament to squabble.

I understand the principles of dissent in parliament.

British democratic values are embedded in the primacy of parliament.

European Parliament should not be involved in foreign politics.

In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government.

By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story.

Barack Obama is telling the banking industry what it can and can't charge and what profit he will accept and what level of profit he won't accept. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter came up with this scheme that resulted in the subprime mortgage crisis. They said it was unfair that poor and minority people didn't have houses, so we're basically gonna give 'em houses. How are we gonna do that? We're going to make the banks loan them money, knowing full well they can't pay it back.

We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home.

The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters build their houses out of their lives, one could imagine the same of New Orleans, whose houses were similarly and resolutely shuttered against an outside world that could never be trusted to show proper sensitivity toward the oozing delicacies within.

Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for their moms, and I wonder if, other than Jesus, has this ever happened before. Maybe it happens all the time. Maybe there's angry dead all over, hiding in rooms, covered with blankets, bossing around their scared, embarrassed relatives. Because how would we know?

Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

Unanimous votes are rare in parliament.

We're in the Chicago suburbs, ruling our 'hood and the streets that lead here. It's a street war, where other suburban gangs fight us for territory. Three blocks away are mansions and million-dollar houses. Right here, in the real world, the street war rages on. The people in the million-dollar houses don't even realize a battle is about to begin less than a half mile from their backyards.

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

As members of the executive, we are accountable to Parliament.

I was the chairman of the IT committee of Parliament for 5 years.

I enjoyed Parliament being a proper elected MP.

I didn't know when Parliament started to pay my wages.

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

Parliament was an institution of enormous standing when I was aspiring to go in. It isn't now.

Without dialogue, you cannot run parliament. You have to interact.

We have never said that we want to challenge the institution of Parliament.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

One doesn't need money to run for Parliament, but it is undoubtedly expensive.

I came into parliament to do things, so I don't particularly relish being a rebel.

I ran for parliament in 1980 as an independent against Allan J. MacEachen.

I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.

Our bodies penetrate the sofas upon which we sit and the sofas penetrate our bodies. The motorbus rushes into the houses which it passes, and in their turn the houses throw themselves upon the bus and are blended with it.

Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes the inseparable companion, clothes can stir sentimentality, and the bit of bric-a-brac is a toy one would weep to see torn away - but houses are real, deep, emotional things. How much excitement in the cutting of a window, what enormous importance in the angle of a roof!

Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village expanding in all directions with their masterpieces of modernity in the way of houses and bungalows; but the builder himself you will usually find living nearer the heart of things, snugly and comfortably housed in some more substantial, if less convenient, building of less recent date.

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.

Parliament is supposed to be serious. It's not a place for jingoistic cheering.

There are occasions when obstruction in Parliament brings greater benefits to the country.

It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses.

I'm of the opinion that one of the perks of being in Parliament is not having to do the school run.

I'm the fifth president of Haiti to rule without a parliament.

I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.

We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament.

We were asked to host the Pan African Parliament and we agreed to this.

There is no other Parliament like the English. For the ordinary man, elected to any senate, from Perisa to Peru, they may be a certain satisfaction in being elected... but the man who steps into the English Parliament takes his place in a pageant that has ever been filing by since the birth of English history... York or Lancaster, Protestant or Catholic, Court or Country, Roundhead or Cavalier, Whig or Tory, Liberal or Conservative, Labour or Unionist, they all fit into that long pageant that no other country in the world can show.

I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly true ghost stories - so much so that it became necessary for me to read a chapter of _Little Women_ every night before I turned out the light - and at the same time I was collecting pictures of houses, particularly odd houses, to see what I could find to make into a suitable haunted house.

In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th of March 1707 is hereby reconvened.