“flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me. — Irakli Okruashvili Copy Share Image
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One must be deliberately ignoring reality to pretend that our asylum process is not being abused. — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life. — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
“Incarceration seems to have been obtained in consequence of Mrs. Packard using her reason and, not as reported, by her losing her… — Emily Mann Copy Share Image
“If they didn’t want the patients at the Undisclosed Ffirth Asylum command center slash patient processing facility to feel like prisoners, they… — David Wong Copy Share Image
I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I have one thing to say about the mental asylum. I've romanticized two things in my life, and both have fallen short.… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
People are realizing if they jump across our border and they have a child with them they can raise their hand and… — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
We need to go back to the system that worked, and that is 'Remain in Mexico' If you're applying for asylum, do… — Young Kim Copy Share Image
The wisest among us is very lucky never to have met the woman, be she beautiful or ugly, intelligent or stupid, who… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Because of a massive backlog of asylum cases and an inability to quickly adjudicate and enforce them, more migrants are making the… — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“You knew then that this was not any kind of hospital that cured, but a hospital that held, that kept their patients… — Anne Spollen Copy Share Image
What single organization has done more for the orphan than the Catholic Church? What one, through hospital and asylum, more for the… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in every young girl's life when she is instructed by a complete stranger to scale a tall ladder… — Gina Damico Copy Share Image
“I looked out to see a forbidding place with granite walls and towering gates, implacable barriers to be reckoned with, the words… — Carole Gill Copy Share Image
Asylum was good exposure for me and it is still shown quite often on television. I remember the special effects people had… — Herbert Lom Copy Share Image
“Had there been a lunatic asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“They found my husband with his feet treading empty air, touching the soil of no country. Death, of course, is a refuge.… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“Not least, the asylum idea reflected the long-term cultural shift from religion to scientific secularism. In traditional Christendom, it was the distinction… — Roy Porter Copy Share Image
“I fold myself into a corner of this room and bury my head in my knees and rock back and forth and… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Then as we passed down this Passage we were knocked against certain Women of the Town, who gave us Eye-language, since there… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“One of them hasn't got a uniform on or plainclothes either like the rest. He has on the white coat that is… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
We cannot treat people with a right to asylum the same way as people from a safe country. They need to be… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
“Jerusha leaned forward watching with curiosity - and a touch of wistfulness - the stream of carriages and automobiles that rolled out… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
“I think more people would stay active in church, if they didn't get so offended by the actions of members. Sometimes, you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image