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I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. -- Paul Simon
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls. -- Lionel Blue
I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. -- Daniel Libeskind
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration. -- Butch Otter
However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole. -- Red Auerbach
They've got these things called lockers," I raved on. "The Halls are lined with them. And you won't believe what they're for! They're for locking stuff away-so other people won't steal it! Why can't everyone share?" ~ Cap -- Gordon Korman
They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them. -- Preston Brooks
Never take an elevator in city hall. -- Harvey Milk
Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000. -- Neville Marriner
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. -- Roger Kahn
I would love to be in the Hall Of Fame. -- Rob Halford
To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition. -- Victoria Woodhull
I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress. -- Joe Walsh
The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much -- Doc Watson
I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork. -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. -- Isaac Stern
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially. -- Steve Chabot
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. -- Washington Irving
The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming. -- Idina Menzel
We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that. -- Pete Best
Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement. -- Neil Young
I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls. -- Lavrenti Lopes
The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting these poker halls. -- Jason Gedrick
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit! -- Mother Jones
When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record. -- Teddy Wilson
Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards. -- Louise Slaughter
My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself. -- Lillie Langtry
I've had every kind of humiliation, from playing in Gala Bingo halls to doing a PA in a Glaswegian nightclub and having cans of lager thrown at me. -- Sean Maguire
It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine. -- Paul Tsongas
We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for. -- Brian Schweitzer
Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does. -- Waylon Jennings
I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine. -- Jill Clayburgh
I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and restricted facilities for leprosy patients, just to mention a few. -- Ji-Hae Park
Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have. -- Junior Johnson
I went to a Christian all-boys' college one time to pick up my buddies so we could go play baseball, and I just remember walking through the halls, and there's all these crucified Jesuses. It's scary. -- Evan Goldberg
I really thought twice about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when that came in. I always was of a mind that it's an inherently stupid idea to put something like that in a glass case. -- Elvis Costello
If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street. -- Joseph Rykwert
From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government. -- Thomas Steinbeck
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword. -- Andrew Jackson
I have voted against only one of President Obama's nominees: Michael Froman, a Citigroup alumnus who is currently storming the halls of Congress as U.S. Trade Representative pushing trade deals that threaten to undermine financial regulation, workers' rights, and environmental protections. -- Elizabeth Warren
I find out as much from the guy in backstage TV as I do from my C.F.O. Anybody can e-mail me. I do town halls with employees at least once every eight weeks. I'm out there, and it makes a huge difference. -- Mindy Grossman
One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.' -- Bill Gates
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed -- Roger Kahn
The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation. -- Henry Miller
The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much. -- Doc Watson
I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues. -- David Guetta
Anne laughed. "I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne laughed. "I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
To guide someone through the halls of hell is not the same as love. -- Gregory Orr
A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner. -- Glenn Gould
And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume. -- Siegfried Sassoon
I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress. -- Malcolm Wallop
Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I'd like to continue doing movies, clubs, concert halls and television. I like something about each one. -- Tommy Davidson
And I played music through the night, alone, echoing through the halls. My life, alive through note. -- Jonathan Lamas
And you should not be out and about in your nightgown. There are Lightwoods wandering these halls. -- Cassandra Clare
I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned. -- David Ogden Stiers
You won't find God at the Seminary and you won't find wisdom in the halls of intellectualism. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Big halls allow me to be a little "larger" and the challenge is make the show feel intimate. -- Karen Mason
With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely. -- Jay Asher
Every single American has a voice and ... it ought to be heard in the halls of power every day. -- Howard Dean
...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room. -- Dean Koontz
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. -- Sam Harris
Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls! -- Drew Carey
Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls. -- John Hart
Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick. -- Noreena Hertz
I was a kid who was really unhappy with being bussed. I was one of the angry people in the halls. -- Rob Reiner
Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket. -- Dee Dee Myers
I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls. -- Charles Stuart Calverley
When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four. -- Muhammad Ali
He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night. -- George R. R. Martin
I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named. -- John Milton
Football players are busy (with) study halls and tutoring. Well, anyway, at South Carolina they are. I don't know about all these other schools. -- Steve Spurrier
We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation. -- Bernard Cornwell
I was a musical theatre kid, which meant you could always find me singing or dancing in the halls with at least four other people. -- Josie Loren
Ray Comfort's got a fabulous film. Oh boy, this is going to cause the halls of academia to have a few conversations around the cafeteria. -- Janet Parshall
We wandered the halls of an infinite magic nursing home, led by a hippo nurse with a torch. Really, just an ordinary night for the Kanes. -- Rick Riordan
Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory. -- Loretta Lynch
I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar. -- Dave Holland
I dreamt of playing in the big halls all over the world and it has always been my dream to play for people in many different countries. -- Rafal Blechacz
Feast, and your halls are crowded Fast, and the world goes by Succeed and give, and it helps you live But no man can help you die -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls. -- David Levithan
There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office. -- John Jay Hooker
We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families. -- Barbara Mikulski
The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant. --
There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one... -- Stephen King
No Kill may be defined by what happens to the animals within the halls of the shelter, but it can only be achieved by what happens outside of them. -- Nathan Winograd
If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress. -- Stephanie Tubbs Jones
If you want to pray at a town hall meeting or a school board meeting or in the halls of Congress, that ought to be acceptable in the United States. -- Tim Walberg
The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding rings who lurk in the halls of power. -- Michelle Malkin
For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls. -- Van Morrison
Of course, we also have to play in concert halls. This is our dream when you are a musician - to play in a good, comfortable hall with a wonderful acoustic. -- Gustavo Dudamel
I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those walls, That I was the hope and the pride. -- Alfred Bunn
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility! -- Juvenal
As you can imagine, with Hillary Clinton being here, security is very tight. The Secret Service has been here all day sweeping the halls, the offices, the hard drives... It's tight. -- Jimmy Fallon
Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music. -- Josh Groban
To tell you the truth, man, we spend most of the time travelling in hotels, in festivals, in concert halls, clubs, airports. The most unenjoyable part is all the security at airports. -- Hugh Masekela
There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls. -- Walter Reuther
At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, 'Hey, the rednecks are in town! -- Dave Haywood
Are you staring at me because you've seen my doppelganger roaming the halls, playing kind of the cafeteria? Or because you need to borrow a pencil and you're too shy to ask? -- Alyson Noel
Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of the truly free-form town halls may be over. -- Mark McKinnon
Ann Romney has been front-and-center. She's held a lot of town halls, a lot of campaign rallies, on her own, separate from her husband. And she is dynamite out on the campaign trail. -- Monica Crowley
At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, 'Hey, the rednecks are in town!' -- Dave Haywood
Over the years, I managed to develop this comedy career, went from opening act to headliner at comedy clubs, to playing concert halls, and had an off-Broadway show with 'Sleepwalk With Me.' -- Mike Birbiglia
I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus. -- Donald Sinden
Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve. -- Roland Barthes
There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools. -- Ruben Hinojosa
I liked, I admit, that we didnâ??t pretend there hadnâ??t been other girls. There was always a girl on you in the halls at school, like they came free with a backpack. -- Daniel Handler

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