We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
God of peace, you are at the center of my life, a strong refuge of peace in the whirlwind of my pain.… — Joyce Rupp Copy Share Image
Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A human being can only endure depression up to a certain point; when this point of saturation is reached it becomes necessary… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Homes should be an anchor, a safe harbor, a place of refuge, a place where families dwell together, a place where children… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
He who accepts life for what it is and never allows himself to be overwhelmed by it does not need to seek… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house full of music, and a house that didn't have a television. We had a piano, but… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
“That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“ps.46.1 ¶ God is to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely. ps.46.2 Therefore we fear not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“In 1913, trying desperately to liberate art from the ballast of the representational world, I sought refuge in the form of the square.” — Kasimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it… — Bob Ney Copy Share Image
I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul,… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
“And the downtrodden found refuge in dilapidation; and were happy there because it was theirs and no one else's; bare of pretences… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
“He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say [1]… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why else is politics the perfect refuge for every liar, cheat, and self-serving toad that was ever born? All you need is… — Stuart Hill Copy Share Image
In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Superstition is the poetry of life. It is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The soft heart is not a thing to harden but a treasure to protect. For soft hearts extend mercy, compassion, refuge, and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Going for refuge to Buddha,Dharma, and Sangha means that we apply effort to receiving Buddha's blessings, to putting Dharma into practice, and… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Man's feeble race what ills await! Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
I suppose there is hardly any one in the civilized world - particularly of those who do just a little more every… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge;… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism… Skepticism they view with contempt,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image