Quotes About Dwell

Time and the Gods are at strife; ye dwell in the midst thereof, Draining a little life from the barren breasts of love.

She'd been raised not to dwell on such injustices, because dwelling made it difficult to be good company in the present. Perhaps it was necessary to dwell, though, even to be obsessive, for any real change to occur. Plenty of Quakers dwelled—the American Friends Service Committee, for example—and hadn't that done the world a lot of good? When she got back to Haverford, she'd volunteer for something to do with animals—if Dick could spare her.

And then they heard the angels tell Who were the first to cry Nowell? Animals all, as it befell, In the stable where they did dwell! Joy shall be theirs in the morning!

if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future

I think my thought and imagination contain the picture and perceive its significance from every point of view. I have to force myself not to dwell upon it to avoid the sort of numbness that comes from deep apprehension and dwelling upon elements too vast to be yet comprehended or in any way controlled by counsel.

And then everything swam away on dark currents to the places where dreams dwell when they are not being used. . . .

35. And We said: "O Adam! Dwell you and your wife in the Paradise and eat both of you freely with pleasure and delight of things therein as wherever you will, but come not near this tree or you both will be of the Zaalimoon (wrong-doers).

Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise...Blessed are those whose strength is in you...blessed is the one who trusts in you!

There are, indeed, some things which appear so impossible that the mind does not dwell on them for an instant.

I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.

Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?

I shall go unto the rebellious that dwell in the dry land,'" Halleck intoned. "Someday I'll catch that man without a quotation and he'll look undressed," the Duke said.

When you don't have a vision or a plan for the future, your mind has no choice but to dwell in the past.

Would you allow other people to be masters in the home you dwell in? You never would. And yet, alas! you allow so much else to occupy the heart and have the place God alone is meant to have.

Never shall I dare implant a kiss on these lips where the spirits of heaven dwell.

When Autumn's shadows idly muse And tinge the trees with many hues Amidst whose scenes I feign to dwell And sing of what I love so well

The goddesses that dwell Far along invisible Are my favorite gods.

Good lovers understand each other;Better lovers respect each other;Best lovers live to trust each other; Great lovers dwell in each other.

There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.

To dwell is to garden.

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

I'm not going to sit here and dwell on whether or not I am going to the Hall of Fame.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.