Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion. — Emmett Tyrrell Copy Share Image
Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Spirituality: the last refuge of a failed human. Just another way of distracting yourself from who you really are. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
First, the desert is the country of madness. Second, it is the refuge of the devil, thrown out into the "wilderness of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Each year, members of Canada’s Ukrainian community, Parliamentarians and others commemorate the Holodomor at gatherings across the country. In doing so, we… — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable. — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that's kind of hard to fathom. — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope? — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended… — Ken Bruen Copy Share Image
“Here, the world slows down, takes a pause, offering refuge to hidden and discreet creatures.” — David Passarelli Copy Share Image
Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media. — Peter York Copy Share Image
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure. — G. Bruce Boyer Copy Share Image
The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen. — Lancelot Andrewes Copy Share Image
“Only those who are bereaved of all joy in this present world may take refuge in the shadows of the past.” — Julian May Copy Share Image
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image