Refuge Quotes · Page 4

You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses,…

— John O'Donohue

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

— Oscar Wilde

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

— Oscar Wilde

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

— Aaron Allston

[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely…

— Philip Yancey

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

The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could…

— Albert Camus

Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Music was my solace, my refuge.

— Vidya Vox

I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

— Oscar Wilde

I think all kids feel that their lives are tough, and that they've, been given an unfair shake for one reason or…

— David Small

Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.

— Charles Bartlett Johnson

Music has always been a big part of my life. It's kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it…

— Kevin Durant

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal…

— Susan B. Anthony

Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves.

— Comtesse Diane

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then…

— Wendell Berry

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth…

— William Gaddis

Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God's solution is surprising.…

— Mark Buchanan

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

— Alberto Manguel

Before the United States, there wasn't really anyplace anybody could go. They had to seek refuge in other ways. After the United…

— Rush Limbaugh

A friend of mine is trying to do a documentary where he brings Jewish and Arab comedians to occupied territories in Israel.…

— Harold Ramis

I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in…

— Diana Gabaldon

Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

— Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe Robert Walker

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness…

— Anonymous