Refuge Quotes - page 3

Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling is bad public policy that has no place in the budget process,. The Budget Committee needs to leave drilling in the Arctic Refuge behind and focus on crafting this year's budget package. (Russ Feingold)
I'm thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art, And this is the only immortality that you and I may share, my Lolita. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they take refuge in the grace of God. And when they have done so, they experience the nearness of the divine protection which is to them a strong fortress (Ps 30:6-7). View quote
John Calvin
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. View quote
George Sand
Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings. View quote
Bob Dylan
Music is a Place to take Refuge. It's a Sanctuary from Mediocrity and Boredom. It's Innocent and it's a Place you can loose yourself in Thoughts, Memories and Intricacies. View quote
Lisa Gerrard
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel. View quote
Roger Scruton
The same Divine Compassion that blessed Dharma; saved Gajendra; restored Kuchela; and stood by Prahlada, has come to the Earth as the Refuge of the refugeless; as the Lord of Peace, Harmony and Righteousness; as the Lord of all the Worlds; as the Sath-Chith-Anandamurthi; and as the Puttaparthi Sathya Sai Sath-Chakravarthi - the King of Kings. View quote
Sathya Sai Baba
The Lord is the refuge of all who seek refuge, the saviour of all who have to be saved. He is the Embodiment of Being-Awareness-Bliss (Sat-chit-ananda). He is now at Puttaparthi as the Effulgent Emperor over the region of Truth, Goodness and Beauty. View quote
Sathya Sai Baba
Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave. View quote
C. L. R. James
The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad. (Otto Weininger)
A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility. View quote
Jean Cocteau
It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do. View quote
Aristotle
The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings. View quote
John Locke
The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer. View quote
Peter Wessel Zapffe
Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt. View quote
Martha Wells
Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity. View quote
Joris-Karl Huysmans
There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it. View quote
Ken Bruen
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally. View quote
Vera Wang
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 world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge. View quote
William Gaddis
Where does your security lie? Is God your refuge, your hiding place, your stronghold, your shepherd, your counselor, your friend, your redeemer, your saviour, your guide? If He is, you don't need to search any further for security. (Elisabeth Elliot)
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent. View quote
Aaron Allston
Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs. View quote
Bob Ney
I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill. View quote
Ben Nelson
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real. View quote
Carroll O'Connor