Top 155 Dwell Quotes

We know that the American people are only safe because our law enforcement officers face danger. We can only rest easy because they never rest. And we can only dwell in peace because they stand between us and the danger.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.

Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us – high and low, light and dark – is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

I can’t dwell on something that has nothing to do with football at all – it will hold me back.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West.

Incidents of racial bias and implicit bias happen to African-Americans of every social class daily in America. White people seldom notice or dwell on these as they encounter the quotidian events of their day.

Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don’t think that all books need to have that particular focus.

I didn’t expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they’ve sanded away all but the outcroppings of history – the museums, the memorials.

It’s not something that I dwell on. I’ve never really had a problem with being soft.

I dwell in possibility.

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

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.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people’s characters.

I’m limitless, spontaneous and fearless. I can take direction and also give it. And I don’t dwell on celebrity.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

I still have downs and get depressed, but I try not to dwell too much on being negative because it always passes and there is still so much to do.

God is not subject to the dimension of time. He dwells in eternity.

There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; they constitute his ideal audience and his better self.

We must learn from the past, but we cannot dwell in the past.

We are all different. We all have different circumstances, and you have to cope with whatever it is, try not to dwell on things.

Things don’t weigh me down any more. I confront things, and I move on. I don’t dwell on things; I don’t let things simmer under the surface. I am where it starts and where it ends. I have the power in my life to be happy.

You dwell too much on the past, you forget that you’ve got to take care of the present.

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

To many people, ‘biodiversity’ is almost synonymous with the word ‘nature,’ and ‘nature’ brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.

If you sit there and dwell on the fact that you did something… you will lose your mind.

It’s a mistake to dwell too much on the consequences of a piece of work that you’re making.

Whereas I used to get depressed or neurotic or dwell on things, I see my son’s bright eyes and smile in the morning, and suddenly, I don’t feel like I’m depressed anymore. There’s nothing to be depressed about when you’ve got that.

I think I’m lucky in that I can park things. I don’t dwell. I’ve got a selective memory. I only remember the good things. I don’t know what a psychologist or a psychiatrist would say about that.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

At the peak of his scientific triumphs, Newton became a ‘head,’ a student of the inner spiritual world – or in modern terms, a neurologician. Modern physicists do not dwell on this dramatic life-change in their hero.

I have read a lot of spiritual works and believe that our body is just a place for the soul to dwell.

I have always been confident. I know my own mind, what I’m able to do. I will never sit down and dwell.

I never dwell on what happened. You can’t change it. Move forward. Don’t waste your energy on being angry at something that somebody did six months ago or a year ago. It’s over. Done. Move forward.

Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

We don’t dwell on the business of Korra restoring everyone’s bending in ‘Book 2,’ but we figured she got around to helping the innocent people who lost it in the months between the seasons.

Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.

American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.

I am someone who tunes into more ethical journalism, and I’m not someone who dwells a lot on the negative, so I think I’d rather focus on the positive and forge ahead.

You got to make the most of your second life. I was born Nayvadius, but now I’m Future. Should I dwell on what Nayvadius was supposed to be? I get a chance to experience life as something else. I wasn’t supposed to be like this.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

Every retarded, deformed, crippled, handicapped, or senile person, who has been baptized, is a powerhouse for good in a wicked world by reason of the grace of God that dwells in his soul.

A Christian is of no sect. He can dwell in the midst of sects, and appear in their services, without being attached or bound to any. He hath but one knowledge, and that is, Christ in him.

All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power.

I’ve had a bad time, which we won’t dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 years, and suddenly with her gone I was a quadriplegic. Slowly I’m crawling back.

I do not write often now – not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren’t there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.

If you start to dwell on your pain, the amount of pain will increase.

I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

We can no longer dwell on the divisive politics of the past but must focus on Georgia’s bright and promising future.

I’m a person who really doesn’t dwell on the past.

I can’t dwell on the past. It’s over, there’s nothing I can do about it.

People dwell so much on the little things, but why should they hold you back when you have the big things to look forward to? By exuding positive energy when dealing with your problems, you will exude it in your being in general. Treat yourself with love and you will exude love to others.

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.