Shelter Quotes - Page 24

• Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

  W. L. George

  Cat, Pet, And Love

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• I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.

  Jared Leto

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• Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit?

  John Owen

  Christian, Running, Blessing

  John Owen (1904). “The Golden Book of John Owen: Passages from the Writings of the Rev. John Owen, M.A., D.D., Sometime Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Dean of Christ Church”

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• Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenseless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will perform them.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Sick, Judging

  Lysander Spooner (1882). “Natural Law, Or, The Science of Justice: A Treatise on Natural Law, Natural Justice, Natural Rights, Natural Liberty, and Natural Society : Showing that All Legislation Whatsoever is an Absurdity, a Usurpation, and a Crime”

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• If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

  Emma Thompson

  Rights, Needs, Want

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• Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.

  Joseph Pilates

  Mind, Body, Pilates

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.

  Rebecca West

  Pain, Night, Mad

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.818, Open Road Media

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• Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Dark, Night, Vastness

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.86, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Men, Sides

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• Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when the occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Struggle, People, Appreciate

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• I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin and nonthreatening. Anorexia signifies that a young woman is so delicate that, like the women of China with their tiny broken feet, she needs a man to shelter and protect her from a world she cannot handle. Anorexic women signal with their bodies "I will take up only a small amount of space. I won't get in the way." They signal "I won't be intimidating or threatening." (Who is afraid of a seventy-pound adult?)

  Mary Pipher

  Men, Thinking, Feet

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• I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu.

  Georgette Heyer

  Writing, Thinking, Air

  "Georgette Heyer, queen of Regency romance, honoured with blue plaque" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 05, 2015.

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• One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

  Lorrie Moore

  Pockets

  Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.444, Faber & Faber

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• To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Book, Two, Cooking

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.76, Random House

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• May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.

  Marianne Williamson

  Wedding, Home, Heart

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.267, Random House

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• If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Deep Thought, Earth, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Brother's Karamazov (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)”, p.692, e-artnow

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• People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.

  Betty Smith

  Strong, Rain, Coffee

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.

  Betty White

  Years, Track, Pet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.

  Barack Obama

  Dog, Mutts, Like Me

  "No Rest For Obama". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. November 8, 2008.

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• The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Stars, Home, Sleep

  Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.167, Univ of California Press

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• Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spiritual, Glasses, Long

  Rabindranath Tagore, Krishna Dutta, Andrew Robinson (1997). “Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.

  Vanna Bonta

  Money, War, People

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• The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Cat, Doe, Care

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.504, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Creating, Knowing

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• We are all dishonored when a veteran sleeps on the same streets that he or she has defended. We are all dishonored when a veteran's family has to live in a shelter while he or she is out fighting for us. WE NEED TO FIX THAT!

  Tammy Duckworth

  Sleep, Fighting, Needs

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