Refuge Quotes
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The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement.
Hugo Black -
Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (a) call 911, (b) get the hot dogs, or (c) recognize God? A vanishingly small number of people would recognize God, Anne had decided years before, and most of them had simply missed a dose of Thorazine.
Mary Doria Russell -
My hope is in you, Lord. Be my refuge, for You are my strength.... Into Your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, Lord, God of Truth.
Bernadette Soubirous -
Even a hunter cannot kill a bird which flies to him for refuge.
Chiune Sugihara -
What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Coco Chanel -
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
Norman Douglas -
The garden is the place I go for refuge and shelter, not the house. In the house are duties and annoyances, servants to exhort and admonish, furniture, and meals; but out there blessings crowd round me at every step -- it is there that I am sorry for the unkindness in me, for those selfish thoughts that are so much worse than they feel; it is there that all my sins and silliness are forgiven, there that I feel protected and at home, and every flower and weed is a friend and every tree a lover. When I have been vexed I run to them for comfort, and when I have been angry without just cause, it is there I find absolution. Did ever a woman have so many friends? And always the same, always ready to welcome me and fill me with cheerful thoughts. Happy children of a common Father, why should I, their own sister, be less content and joyous than they?
Elizabeth von Arnim
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
Herodotus -
The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.
George Eliot -
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
Thomas Sowell -
The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Charles P. Kindleberger -
Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior.
Gautama Buddha -
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
Carroll O'Connor
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
Albert Camus -
Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.
Ellen Meloy -
Its going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.
Milla Jovovich -
There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.
Ken Bruen -
Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Boies Penrose -
A young girl's mother is her natural refuge in every perplexity.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
Helen Keller -
My library was - all libraries are - a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.
André Brink -
I do not believe in that word Fate. It is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
Andrew Soutar -
However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.
Ernest Bramah