Refuge Quotes

464 Refuge quotes by 355 unique authors

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life. — Dean Koontz
The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel. — Charles P. Kindleberger
Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrators, and for… — Noam Chomsky
Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of… — Lester R. Brown
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should… — Saint Augustine
Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble. — Thomas a Kempis
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. — Oscar Wilde
My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could… — Albert Einstein
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. — Kim Stanley
How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? How sure am I of… — Christopher Hitchens
George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an… — Brian May
Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last refuge for mystics,… — Michio Kaku
Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there.… — Edward Abbey
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that… — Abraham Maslow
Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt. — Sandra Day O'Connor
O Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations. — Saint Boniface
My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt. — Fernando Pessoa
Jesus Your name is a shelter for the hurting, Your name is a refuge for the weak, only Your name can redeem the undeserving, Jesus… — Lincoln Brewster
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world. — Bertrand Russell
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary… — William Gaddis
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
Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met… — Pierre Berton

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