Refuge Quotes

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including citizens in formulating a consensus plan that preserves our beautiful refuge.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

I take refuge in my books.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.