Refuge Quotes

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

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

I take refuge in my books.

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

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

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

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

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

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

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

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

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.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

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

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.