Refuge Quotes

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

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.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.

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 beauty.

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

Going for refuge to Buddha,Dharma, and Sangha means that we apply effort to receiving Buddha's blessings, to putting Dharma into practice, and to receiving help from Sangha.

Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.

To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

This fight against drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a fight about our principles. Its about standing up for our environment, our families and our future, and I wont give up this fight.

You are your own refuge There is no other You cannot save another You can only save yourself.

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.

There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

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.

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

Spirituality: the last refuge of a failed human. Just another way of distracting yourself from who you really are.

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 lose yourself in thoughts, memories and intricacies.

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.

A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

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 tenet.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

O Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations.

At Cana, [Mary] gave Him as a Savior to sinners; on the Cross He gave her as a refuge to sinners.

Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp; hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.

The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.

Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

You'll never know Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have. Are you in the wilderness? Find refuge in God's presence. Find comfort in his people.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.

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 Your name holds everything I need.

A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.

The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.