Refuge Quotes

Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.

The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.

When art find no temple open, it takes refuge in the workshop.

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, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal

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 of life.

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.

If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

Obedience is the greatest refuge of the weak and the coward people!

We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness.

I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

Religion pervades intensely the whole frame of society, and is according to the temper of the mind which it inhabits, a passion, a persuasion, an excuse, a refuge; never a check.

London clubland divides itself between the St James's refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.

[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift?

I have felt an urgency to counsel each of us to seek the higher ground---the refuge and eternal protection of the temple.

Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.

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.

Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered.

Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.

It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.

I love art and I find myself at the MoMA all the time. Museums are a real refuge for me. I go to a museum for any break that I have, and I'm very inspired by art.

All the times these arms were my only refuge from the world. Perhaps not fully appreciated then, but so sweet in my memory, and now gone forever.

Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.

Man's feeble race what ills await! Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain, Disease, and Sorrow's weeping train, And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!

The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.

While endangering one of the most pristine areas in the world, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would do nothing to make our country more energy independent.

You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.

I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.

Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism.... Skepticism they view with contempt, as the refuge of the unenlightened.

If a lion is not accepted in its own den, it will find no refuge in the rest of the jungle.

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently

My heart is the refuge where you will find everlasting love.

When the world caves inStill my hope will clingTo Your promiseWhere my courage endsLet my heart find strengthIn Your presence

God is my refuge.

It is better to hide under the shadow of the righteousness of Almighty God than seek refuge in shelter of sins.

Dear refuge of my weary soul, On thee, when sorrows rise, On thee, when waves of trouble roll, My fainting hope relies.

One should measure their life by the faith they embrace and the relationships they cherish

There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead.

Small thinking and big dreams is an oxymoron

True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential”.

Black and white is refuge of colors from their own nullity.

The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.

Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.

I refuse to live life with unsettled differences”.

My dreams were all my own

When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!