From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“How appropriate to have my tongue cut out, when silence has been my refuge and my cage.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge. — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay… — Robert Dold Copy Share Image
Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“There is a rock in a high place that is a safe refuge for God’s people. God has promised to put our… — T. T. Crabtree Copy Share Image
We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both… — Paloma Picasso Copy Share Image
I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I mean, so if I've talked to whites in City of Refuge, sometimes they'll wonder, "Why do we do things a certain… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Seek refuge in Mary because she is the city of refuge. We know that Moses set up three cities of refuge for… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
“I had a number of German and Austrian refugee friends in London and they kept on telephoning in consternation as the news… — Frances Faviell Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.” — Wayne Cordeiro Copy Share Image
“Death is a certain refuge, never to be feared”; “Strong diseases require strong remedies”, writes Montaigne” — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without… — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The home is the center of life - a refuge from the grind of work, pressure of school, menace of the streets,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God. — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real. — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. — John Piper Copy Share Image