Refuge Quotes

464 Refuge quotes by 355 unique authors

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence. — Robert A. Heinlein
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of… — Robert A. Heinlein
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness… — Eric Hoffer
The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace,… — Mark Twain
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges… — Erich Fromm
These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is… — Blaise Pascal
The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife… — John F. Kerry
For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse. — Max Muller
There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual… — Craig Ferguson
When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square... the… — Kazimir Malevich
We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies… — Carl Pope
A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its… — Fernando Botero
Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the… — Luther Burbank
Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place to go to… — John Muir
The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew… — Thomas Aquinas
Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one… — John Muir
The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of… — Gifford Pinchot
If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more. — Matthew Arnold
Step by step will those who trust Him find that 'God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.' — Mary Baker Eddy
If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as… — Jeff Goodell
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier… — Galileo Galilei

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