Residence Quotes:

Jean Kirkpatrick [is] the chief sadist-in-residence of the Reagan Administration.

- Noam Chomsky

source: "The Empire and Ourselves". A Solidarity Pamphlet, chomsky.info. April 09, 1986.

topic: Administration, Chiefs, Residence

Your mind is your servant, your body is your vehicle and your soul is your residence.

- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

topic: Inspirational, Bhajans, Soul, Residence

If I am happy inside, then I live in paradise no matter where my residence is.

- Mac Anderson

topic: Inspirational, Paradise, Matter, Residence

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

topic: Taken, Thinking, Voice, Voices In My Head, Residence

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Yoga, Soul, Body, Soul Healing, Spiritual Wisdom

You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.

- Christian Morgenstern

topic: Home, Where You Are, Understood, Residence

Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.

- Belle Boyd

source: Belle Boyd (1865). “Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison”, p.76

topic: Design, Enemy, Important, Residence

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.

- Erin Morgenstern

source: Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.386, Random House

topic: Moving, Self, Blood, Residence, Night Circus

Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

- Andrew Solomon

topic: Depression, Loneliness, Fading, Residence

If there is a soul, what is it, and where did it come from, and where does it go? Can anyone who is guided by his reason possibly imagine a soul independent of a body, or the place of its residence, or the character of it, or anything concerning it? If man is justified in any belief or disbelief on any subject, he is warranted in the disbelief in a soul. Not one scrap of evidence exists to prove any such impossible thing.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Character, Independent, Men, Residence

When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

- John Milton

topic: Kings, Fighting, Men, Kingship, Regal

There has never been evidence that people from these [banned] countries are disproportionately likely to commit terrorist acts. We have sent chaos to the airports. We have offended the world. We have derailed the administration. We have done it in such an incompetent way, the administration has, that people with perfectly legal residence have been widely inconvenienced.

- David Brooks

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Country, Airports, People, Residence

Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.

- David Mixner

source: "Millions of Lives Will Be Changed By Home Health Care Cuts" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2010.

topic: Home, Nursing, People, Residence, Nursing Home

This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

- Lord Byron

source: Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2475, Delphi Classics

topic: Sleep, College, Devil, Conjecture, Residence

I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of books and periodicals, and towards the latter part of my residence from ill health arising from bad and insufficient food.

- Henry Walter Bates

source: Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.253

topic: Book, Rivers, News, Irregularity, Insufficient

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

- Paul Theroux

source: Paul Theroux (2001). “The Best American Travel Writing 2001”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Attitude, Mind, States, Residence

A good place to start is with the kids ... One of the great founding principles of our country was that children would not be punished for the mistakes of their parents. It is time to provide an opportunity for legal residence and citizenship for those who were brought to this country as children and who know no other home.

- Eric Cantor

source: "Eric Cantor: Dreamers 'Should Receive Pathway To Citizenship'" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 02, 2013.

topic: Country, Children, Mistake, Residence, Immigration Reform

Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.

- Pat Conroy

source: FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Oct 15, 2013

topic: Dream, Lying, Grief, Quiver, Vow Of Silence

First, an angel is spiritually present at whatever place in physical space happens to be occupied by the body on which it acts. It can be present at that place without leaving Heaven which is its spiritual residence...

- Mortimer Adler

topic: Spiritual, Angel, Space, Residence

A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not begin his travels at home? Would he have to go far or look very closely to discover novelties? The traveler who, in this sense, pursues his travels at home, has the advantage at any rate of a long residence in the country to make his observations correct and profitable. Now the American goes to England, while the Englishman comes to America, in order to describe the country.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.86, Yale University Press

topic: Country, Travel, Home, Residence

I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have been nailed dawn to this my native region so long and steadily, and made to study and love this spot of earth more and more. What would signify in comparison a thin and diffused love and knowledge of the whole earth instead, got by wandering? The traveler's is but a barren and comfortless condition. Wealth will not buy a man a home in nature-house nor farm there. The man of business does not by his business earn a residence in nature, but is denaturalized rather.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Travel, Kindness, Home, Steering, Residence

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years.

- John Sergeant Wise

source: John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.6, Anza Publishing

topic: Country, Time, Years, Seamen, Residence

After a quarter of a century of personal experience and professional observation, I have come to understand that peace of mind is the true goal of the considered life. I know now that the sum of all other possessions does not necessarily add up to peace of mind; on the other hand, I have seen this inner tranquility flourish without the material supports of property or even the buttress of physical health. Peace of mind can transform a cottage into a spacious manor hall; the want of it can make a regal residence an imprisoning shell.

- Joshua L. Liebman

topic: Peace, Hands, Goal, Quarter Of A Century, Regal

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

- Lily Rabe

topic: Real, Writing, School, Residence

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

- Norman MacCaig

topic: Edinburgh, Ridiculous, Euthanasia, Residence

I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem [New York, NY]. I wanted to know what that was about. I would actually pull people from off of the streets and ask them to come to my studio.

- Kehinde Wiley

topic: New York, Artist, Museums, Residence, Yale University

Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

topic: Prayer, Home, Self, Residence

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

- Antony Jay

source: Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay (1988). “The complete Yes, Minister: the diaries of a cabinet minister”, HarperCollins

topic: Facts, Exile, Civil Service, Residence

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

- Charles Sturt

source: Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during ... 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with observations on New South Wales”, p.58

topic: Mean, Land, Consideration, Residence

I don't live in the papal residence. I live in a simple apartment behind the Vatican gas station.

- Pope Francis

source: Source: www.thedailybeast.com

topic: Simple, Gas Stations, Apartment, Residence, Stations

I'm an artist in residence, I've still been able to accept commercial jobs, and what I'll do is I'll make little videos on the side that I then bring back to the school and show the students the next day.

- Gregory Heisler

source: Source: aphotoeditor.com

topic: Jobs, School, Artist, Residence

Sublime wonders lie in store,I am shown a regal residence;a mighty kingdom, an empirewith more grandeur than before.

- E. A. Bucchianeri

topic: Lying, Sublime, Kingdoms, Regal, Residence

I am one of those who believe that there is no permanent home for even a section of the Bantu in the white area of South Africa and the destiny of South Africa depends on this essential point. If the principle of permanent residence for the black man in the area of the white is accepted then it is the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it in this country.

- P. W. Botha

source: The Guardian, February 7, 2006.

topic: Country, Believe, Home, Residence

In a monetary system, most of us live near our work with a house, car, and lifestyle we can afford (or, all too often, cannot afford), rather than the one we prefer. We are only as free as our purchasing power permits. Even many wealthy people today select a residence mainly to impress others with their status. Lacking a true sense of self worth, many live to impress others.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: Self Worth, Car, People, Purchasing Power, Residence

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

- James Larkin

topic: Outcomes, Matter, Birth, Residence

Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming white light into the darkness as a landing beam for UFOs, and everywhere neon oracles and twisting screens predict happiness and good fortune, announce singers and comedians and magicians in residence or on their way, and the lights always flash and beckon and call.

- Neil Gaiman

source: Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.187, Hachette UK

topic: Dream, Children, Book, White Light, Residence

English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.

- John Ruskin

topic: Artist, Ruined, Residence

"Strangers may not lodge complaints till they have been in residence here for ninety days," the Cacique said, "and no stranger has ever remained with us that long." "My complaint won't hold for ninety days. I accuse you people of eating men."

- R. A. Lafferty

source: "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 5), 1968.

topic: Men, Long, People, Lodges, Residence

I did an expose of an institution for the population with developmental disabilities, and the institutions were closed as a result of the expose. Now the developmentally disabled are cared for in small community-based residences, and I've been working very hard over the decades to open as many of them as I can.

- Geraldo Rivera

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Community, Population, Disability, Developmental, Developmental Disabilities

There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.

- Dorothy Parker

source: Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.101, Penguin

topic: New York, Serious, Proposal, Residence

The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit to residence and citizenship. It asks the same question as the old culture war: 'Who are we?' But the earlier query was primarily about how we define ourselves morally. The new question is about how we define ourselves ethnically, racially and linguistically. It is, in truth, one of the oldest questions in our history, going back to our earliest immigration battles of the 1840s and 1850s.

- E. J. Dionne

topic: War, Battle, Identity, National Identity, Old Culture

I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are.

- Alex Campbell

topic: Baby, Wife, Regard, Residence

I keep [portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust] at home, in my residence, where I live permanently. It's a very good, high-quality work by a Russian sculptor, depicting not just a strong-willed but also thoughtful and kind man.

- Vladimir Putin

source: Source: www.rt.com

topic: Strong, Home, Thoughtful, Kind Man, Sculptors

The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.

- Edward Gibbon

source: Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.237, Modern Library

topic: Errors, Race, Long, Residence

My son Cooper has just turned ten and the sarcasm fairy has already started to take up residence inside his body. Not only am I living with my mother - again! - but I've also got her mini-me to contend with.

- Melissa Rivers

topic: Sarcastic, Mother, Son, Mini Me, Residence

A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.13

topic: Book, Cities, Transition, Spires, Clouded

The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our study and contemplation of the earth, and the laws which govern its animate productions, ought no more to be considered in the light of a disturbance or deviation from the system, than the discovery of the satellites of Jupiter should be regarded as a physical event in the history of those heavenly bodies, however influential they may have become from that time in advancing the progress of sound philosophy among men.

- Charles Lyell

source: Charles Lyell, M. J. S. Rudwick (1990). “Principles of Geology”, p.163, University of Chicago Press

topic: Philosophy, Men, Light, Residence, Heavenly Bodies

In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House, the residence of the leaders of our country. At that time, commercial electricity was not economically feasible, but President Harrison wanted to affirm his confidence in the technological capability of our country.

- Jimmy Carter

source: United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

topic: Country, Technology, White, Electric Light, Residence

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Life, Anger, Suicidal, Residence

Any new pathway to citizenship is completely off the table ... [Illegal immigrants should be able to get citizenship] the same way as any other immigrant has to do it ... You have to apply for legal permanent residence, be it family-based or employment-based. You shouldn't be treated worse than the people doing it the right way, but I think it would be unconscionable for us to treat them better than the people who are doing it the right way.

- Raul Labrador

topic: Thinking, People, Pathways, Residence, Immigration Reform

Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you? Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham. What age would that be, Toby? Late twenties? Atta boy.

- Aaron Sorkin

topic: Morning, Sarcasm, Boys, Toby, Late Twenties