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My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish. (Refuge Quotes)
The roots of India’s soft power run deep. India’s is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious and cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several varieties of Christians, and Muslims. (Refuge Quotes)
Facts count. Conspiracy theories, usually the refuge of the bitter or disempowered, range from factually challenged to wildly hallucinogenic. Many conspiracy theories do both overt and tacit harm. Almost all are insults, intended or unintended, are insults to thousands of hard-working and honest people, and sometimes to entire races, nations, or cultures. (Refuge Quotes)
At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... ‘I’m not always this gabby,’ the librarian said. ‘It’s just so nice to talk to someone who isn’t constructing a conspiracy theory or watching videos of home accidents on YouTube. (Refuge Quotes)
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist. (Refuge Quotes)
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! (Refuge Quotes)
I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don’t immediately have to pay their way. It’s like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for. (Refuge Quotes)
I’m an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. (Refuge Quotes)
When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform. (Refuge Quotes)
No prince, no success filled her dreams: only time spread out before her to spend as she chose, a time of contemplation which offered her refuge. (Refuge Quotes)
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. (Refuge Quotes)
Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still cool but then they are calmed by the obscure location and the arrival of their kind. Keep the address to yourself, let the rabble fund it themselves. Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel no so terrible about my various emotional issues. (Refuge Quotes)
Due to mistakenly believing that outer problems are their own problems, most people seek ultimate refuge in the wrong objects. As a result, their suffering and problems never end. (Refuge Quotes)
To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man’s-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood. (Refuge Quotes)
Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him. (Refuge Quotes)
Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad (Refuge Quotes)
I avoided one-on-one situations, eye contact, and healthy relationships. Instead I took refuge in drinking too much, cheap sex, and sarcasm. (Refuge Quotes)
Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that’s what ‘Rehab’ is about. (Refuge Quotes)
A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree. (Refuge Quotes)
The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings. (Refuge Quotes)
The city of Paris, France, became a place of refuge for biracial Americans during slavery and at the time of the Harlem Renaissance for black musicians, fine artists, writers and others seeking opportunities to practice their craft free from American racism. (Refuge Quotes)
Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life. (Refuge Quotes)
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. (Refuge Quotes)
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. (Refuge Quotes)
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. (Refuge Quotes)
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. (Refuge Quotes)
Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster. (Refuge Quotes)
Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah (Refuge Quotes)
My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God (Refuge Quotes)
The LORD GOD is a shelter from the heat.The LORD GOD is a refuge from the storm (Refuge Quotes)