Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Trillions of years into the future, when all stars are gone...all parts of the cosmos will cool to the same temperature as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Courtesy is not dead - it has merely taken refuge in Great Britain. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation:… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“Thus the tower was both disease and cure. It rendered him unfit for the world and it remedied the hurts inflicted by… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
For, owners of their deeds (karma) are the beings, heirs of their deeds; their deeds are the womb from which they sprang;… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It's so easy to get caught up in the demands of life. And we all take refuge at times in routines and… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
When you are caught in the heavy rains of anger, open the umbrella of mind, take refuge under the roof of reason! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence. — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone]. — Edward Coke 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
After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are… — Anonymous 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
George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered… — Brian May Copy Share Image
Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
