Soul Shelter Quotes

#1. I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.

Bobby Jones

#2. I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

Tony Kushner

#3. I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.

John Green

#5. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person's soul.

John O'Donohue

#6. Every human being has to build a secret temple in his soul where he can shelter himself and find himself again and again.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Everybody should have a shelter dog. It's good for the soul.

Paul Shaffer

#8. The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.

Edith Stein

#9. I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them.

Lois Lowry

#10. The heaven and earth afford me no shelter at all; I'm glad, unreal are body and soul. Welcome thy weapon, O warrior of Yuen! Thy trusty steel, That flashes lightning, cuts the wind of Spring, I feel.

Alan W. Watts

#11. People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

George Bernard Shaw

#12. I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. His priorities for a rich and contented life were friendship, freedom, the pleasures of an examined life, and enough food and shelter to keep body and soul together.

Roger Housden

#14. Another part of what gave me a questioning, rabble-rousing, activist heart and soul is that when all these heavy events went down, my parents did not shelter the kids from it.

Jello Biafra

#15. I think that the inability to love is the central problem, because that inability masks a certain terror, and that terror is the terror of being touched. And if you can't be touched, you can't be changed. And if you can't be changed, you can't be alive.

James A. Baldwin

#16. Throughout history, people with new ideas - who think differently and try to change things - have always been called troublemakers.

Richelle Mead

#17. Here there was no shelter for his soul. There were no houses for a home. It was all a wilderness. It was all a battlefield. It was wild, without a friend. It was all a broken battlefield.

Philip Dodd

#18. It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. A hypocrite, when afflicted by God, resents the infliction, and, like a slave, would run from the Master who has scourged him

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#19. For the art-historically informed, no art has truly shocked since November 19, 1971, when Chris Burden had himself shot in the arm by a friend, at F-Space in Santa Ana, California. Sliced cows and surgically altering one's own face is aftershock art.

Mark Kostabi

#20. Bless all the women of this world who nurture our heritage while too many man rush off to kill for ideals that might now be deeply and personally held, but will often be viewed as repugnant by later generations.

Stephen Jay Gould

#21. Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul.

Samuel

#22. I'm an artist; I do not destroy, but create scars. And above that, I am an inventor of new ways to create them.

Hillary Wen, Hildy Wen

#23. If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

Jay Maisel

#24. It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.

Napoleon Hill