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
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
In a few short years you might have to become a scuba diver and go hundreds of feet underwater - It will… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks,… — Don Young Copy Share Image
It's just about bein' yourself...even when you're on the dole, it's about your leather jacket. Music is the last refuge of the… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men. In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial,… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
In the secret of God's tabernacle no enemy can find us, and no troubles can reach us. The pride of man and… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Befriending the life in others is sometimes a complex matter. There are times when we offer our strength and protection, but these… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
Let all your thoughts be with the Most High, and direct your humble prayers unceasingly to Christ. If you cannot contemplate high… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without… — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
“If you are between an ignorant friend and a wise enemy, take refuge to your wise enemy because he will provide you… — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I'm thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art, And this is the only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges… — Brassai Copy Share Image
“There are those times when a woman fears she is on the brink of extinction or that the dreams and wants she… — Christine Lemmon Copy Share Image
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God, as the worst of His enemies,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I found my tribe of artists - people who were outspoken and not afraid to say what they thought,… — Cote de Pablo Copy Share Image
The idea that Hillary Clinton's plan wants to increase Syrian refuges by 550 percent is very concerning to many Americans. They know… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
I lift my hands to believe again. You are my refuge. You are my strength. As I pour out my heart, these… — Chris Tomlin Copy Share Image
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way,… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Don't let the rain drive you to the wrong shelter; the shade can turn out to be your protector and also your… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Self-pity is the campsite of self-defeat; it is a dark refuge for those parts of us that would rather wallow in what… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
