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Quotes About Dwelling

There was no "Russia" anymore in which he might have dwelt in safety and joy
~ Robert Roper
A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space.
~ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
I want to be old Princess Margaret, without a doubt. Kaftan wearing, Caribbean island-dwelling... that's my inner spirit animal.
~ Sophie Rundle
The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts... his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.
~ George Fox
My people will dwell in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. – Isaiah 32:18
~ Robert J. Morgan
a ship is a habitat before being a means of transport.
~ Roland Barthes
Why don't you live anywhere?" "Do you have a house?" "Of course." "Is it a pure unalloyed pleasure?" "Not entirely." "So there's your answer.
~ Lee Child
A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.
~ Eileen Gray
Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.
~ Carl Jung
You can live in a house, but your real home is inside you.
~ Leonard Jacobson
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God." REVELATION 21:3
~ Anne Graham Lotz
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue.
~ Charlie Kaufman
Language is the dwelling place of ideas that do not exist anywhere else. It is a prism through which to see the world.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Most of us don't live in the present tense. We dwell in a mental place where our regrets and grudges from our past compete with our fears about the future. Sometimes we barely notice what's going on around us, we're so busy time traveling.
~ Lisa Unger
Then, in the same way that his own dwelling slipped away behind him as he rounded a corner on his bicycle, the dream slipped away from his thoughts. Very briefly, a little guiltily, he tried to grasp it back. But the feelings had disappeared. The Stirrings were gone.
~ Lois Lowry
The Bhairava Tantra is set as a conversation between the Goddess Who Is the Creative Power of the Universe and the God Who Is the Consciousness that Permeates Everywhere. For short, they call each other Devi and Bhairava, or Shakti and Shiva. They are lovers and inseparable partners, and one of their favorite places of dwelling is in the human heart.
~ Lorin Roche
All over the continent, local histories, monuments, and signage narrate the story of first settlement: the founder(s), the first school, first dwelling, first everything, as if there had never been occupants who thrived in those places before Euro-Americans.
~ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
each house is a heavy footprint on the Earth.
~ Alice Walker
HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe.
~ Ambrose Bierce
am a Negro, and what had happened to me at that interview constituted, to my mind, a betrayal of faith. I had believed in freedom, in the freedom to live in the kind of dwelling I wanted, providing I was able and willing to pay the price; and in the freedom to work at the kind of profession for which I was qualified, without reference to my racial or religious origins.
~ E.R. Braithwaite
If I could dwellWhere IsrafelHath dwelt, and he where I,He might not sing so wildly wellA mortal melody,While a bolder note than this might swellFrom my lyre within the sky.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
You would not believe how many words there are for 'home' and what savage music there can be wrung from it.
~ Edna O'Brien
Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents.
~ Anonymous