She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through…

As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first…

— Edith Wharton

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

— Alberto Manguel

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

— Mason Cooley

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…

— Mary Doria Russell

The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which…

— Cyril Connolly

There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.

— Clement of Alexandria

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by…

— J. Michael Straczynski

...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

— Jodi Picoult

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

— Winston Churchill

“I've often had to stand on the firm ground of my convictions when others thought I ought to be doing differently.”

— Anne Mateer

“The move to separate from the EU is not a step backward onto firm ground, but a leap into the unknown.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Music laps at the shores of the intellect; only those with no firm ground under their feet can live for music. — Karl Kraus”

— Joshua Cohen

“children with calm efficiency, escorting them safely into the keep.  When all were accounted for, she took refuge there as well. Ian drove the…

— Glynnis Campbell

“He took refuge in the concept that sometimes slowest is the fastest in the end.”

— Stephen Baxter