Quotes About Refuge

A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.

Poem by Cold Mountain Looking for a refuge Cold Mountain will keep you safe a faint wind stirs dark pines come closer the sound gets better below them sits a gray-haired man chanting Taoist texts ten years unable to return he forgot the way he came Translated by Red Pine

La naturaleza tomó la precaución de que las ideas sean invisibles. Es el último refugio de la rebelión.

Rain before sunset and we'll be in shelter.

Why, all of you," answered the other, surprised. "You don't want to stay out in the rain, do you?

from the discomfort of truth there is only one refuge and that is ignorance. i do not need to be comfortable, and i will not take refuge. i demand to KNOW.

The pool is their sanctuary, their refuge, the one place on earth they can go to escape from their pain, for it is only down below in the waters that their symptoms begin to abate. The moment I see that painted black line, I feel fine.

Louis de Bourbon and his right hands Cardinal Mazarin and Jean-Louis Colbert transformed France, particularly the city of Paris, into a haven for civilized society, a refuge for the arts, a gastronomic mecca for gourmands. That is what Georges-Guillaume Damas wanted to do for Gabon in Africa.

Como una bestia acosada que echa huir hacia una cueva, me abrí paso entre aquella selva humana y me refugié desesperadamente, a todo correr, en un cine cercano. Pues, para un monstruo, ese mercado de oscuridad era el único lugar seguro

A person who is impartial, fair, calm, gentle, serene, accepting, and openhearted is indeed a refuge.

He had taken a few days' leave from his army training and they had taken refuge in the Charing Cross Hotel while an unexploded bomb in the Strand was being dealt with. They could hear the naval guns that had been stationed on trolleys between Vauxhall and Waterloo--boom-boom-boom--but the bombers were looking for other targets and seemed to have moved on. 'Doesn't it ever stop?' Jimmy asked. 'Apparently not.' 'It's safer in the army,' he laughed.

Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.

music became my refuge and then my salvation.

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.

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

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.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.