Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon B. Hinckley

The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.

Franz Liszt

The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.

Felix Frankfurter

Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places, either as a matter of systematic area-by-area search or, as here, to treat a specific problem, is of indispensable importance in the maintenance of community health; a power that would be greatly hobbled by the blanket requirement of the safeguards necessary for a search of evidence of criminal acts.

John Burnside

I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.

Jean de la Bruyere

There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

Joe Wright

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.

Joel Osteen

Quit dwelling on the negative things people have said about you. You don’t have to have everyone’s approval. You have God’s approval.

John Lancaster Spalding

Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.

Lord Byron

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

Leonardo da Vinci

Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Small rooms and dwellings set the mind on the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.

Leigh Hunt

Table talk, to be perfect, should be sincere without bigotry, differing without discord, sometimes grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points, dwelling most on seasonable ones, and letting everybody speak and be heard.

Patti LaBelle

Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life.

Martin Heidegger

In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential dwelling with the thing itself - as when a spark, leaping from the fire, flares into light - so it happens, suddenly, in the soul, there to grow, alone with itself.

Martin Heidegger

Only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build

Michael O'Brien

Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.

Marianne Williamson

No one is longing to meet a desperate needy, angry, withholding, controlling person. If your beloved is out there they can't pick up your signals if you're dwelling in those spaces within yourself.

Francois Rabelais

When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another, given that, in you and by you, I remain in my visible image in this world.

Lara Logan

Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

Richard Branson

Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures I find that my imagination grasps and expands on what I read.

Stephen Gardiner

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

Thomas Mann

The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.

Richard Paul Evans

Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.

Winston Churchill

We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.

William Wordsworth

Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.

Will Self

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.