Top 80 Refuge Quotes

Judea and Samaria can be a place of refuge for the nation.

Dignity: the doomed man’s final refuge.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I’m very fond of this phrase: ‘Collage is not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.’ If you put together the pieces in a really powerful way, I think you’ll let a thousand discrepancies bloom.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

For centuries, our country has welcomed people fleeing religious persecution, war and humanitarian crises to create a better future for themselves and their futures. With proper safeguards in place, we should offer refuge to some migrants with legitimate fears of persecution and violence.

The gym was my only refuge. I could put music on and dance around with my girlfriends and be silly.

Our immigration system is fundamentally broken, and ICE’s role in supporting the existing system – including separating families seeking refuge in the United States and conducting indiscriminate deportation raids in our communities – is creating an atmosphere of toxic fear and mistrust in immigrant communities.

It’s amazing living alone. I’m very lucky. It’s like a refuge.

We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I’ve created pays tribute both to the messenger’s noble mission and gardens as a refuge of peace and tranquility.

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

People who do not recognize their Owner and discover their Master are miserable and bewildered. But those who do, and then take refuge in His Mercy and rely on His Power, see this desolate world transformed into a place of rest and felicity, a place of exchange for the Hereafter.

For years, in the wake of Rushdie, I had imagined magical realism to be the last refuge of the non-resident Indian.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

History has not looked kindly on us when we’ve prevented people fleeing violence from seeking refuge in this country.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

I adore my houses – they’re my refuge – but I detest more and more Saint-Tropez where it’s impossible to live: invaded by tourists, social evenings, all of which I avoid and which terrorises me.

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.

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.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one’s self.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

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

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.

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

Since it is impossible to know what’s really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.

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

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

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

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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.

The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.

Any effort to destabilise any government, taking refuge in one’s ideology for promoting violence, conspiring to destabilise and break the country, I feel there cannot be a bigger crime than this.

One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.

President Trump has made good on that pledge by fighting anti-Semitism at home and abroad and by standing shoulder to shoulder with Israel, the historical homeland and refuge for the Jewish people.

I decided to write ‘True Refuge’ during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders.

God was always a refuge for me growing up.

It’s so easy to get caught up in the demands of life. And we all take refuge at times in routines and recliners and ‘usual’ anything!

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it’s our own true nature.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

My problems seemed so glamorous to other people, and everyone just thought I was so lucky. But then, I was lucky because my family was really there for me – San Francisco was a real refuge.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.

In the kind of New England I’m from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New England – well, Maine, actually – so I think it was seen as a betrayal when I left for New York, which has been my refuge.

Immigration is not about visa numbers or building a fence. It is about reclaiming our roots as a nation of immigrants and a refuge for those who have been cast aside.

So you’re quite right that when… as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

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

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

Music was my solace, my refuge.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.