Refuge Quotes
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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?
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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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.
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Even a hunter cannot kill a bird which flies to him for refuge.
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I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
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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.
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The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.
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Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.
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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.
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The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.
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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.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.
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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.
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The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.
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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.
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I do not believe in that word Fate. It is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.
