Refuge Quotes

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

My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.

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

I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

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.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

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.

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

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.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

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.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

I take refuge in my books.