Refuge Quotes

464 Refuge quotes by 355 unique authors

The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific… — Florence Nightingale
Tolerance is our safest refuge and our fortress against the handicaps that arise from schism, factions, and the difficulties inherent in reaching mutual agreement — Fethullah Gulen
Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world. — Oscar Wilde
O Mary Mother of Mercy and Refuge of Sinners! We beseech thee to look with pitying eyes on poor heretics and schismatics. Do thou, who… — Pope Pius XII
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent. — Aaron Allston
Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a… — John Murray
The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza.... — Violet Trefusis
For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it… — John Calvin
It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. — Robert Dold
The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. — Robert Dold
Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can… — William O. Douglas
Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge. — Max Frisch
The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels. — Neal Boortz
Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the… — Roger Cohen
Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered. — Roger Cohen
The world of strict naturalism in which clever mathematical laws all by themselves bring the universe and life into existence, is pure [science] fiction. Theories… — John Lennox
At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not always this gabby,'… — Myla Goldberg
Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp... If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden… — Loren Eiseley
The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He… — Robert Briffault
There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the extent… — John Kenneth Galbraith
My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place to set it… — Wally Lamb
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel. — Roger Scruton
We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who… — Jennifer Granholm
There are as many violent women as men, but there's a lot of money in hating men, particularly in the United States -- millions of… — Erin Pizzey

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