Refuge Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (R) Quotes

Movie directing is the perfect refuge for the mediocre.

- Orson Welles

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Leonard Cohen

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.

- Mario Vargas Llosa

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.

- Marisa Tomei

It`s going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.

- Milla Jovovich

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

- Carroll O'Connor

My mother took refuge in her spirituality while my poor father was barely able to bring home enough money to keep food on the table.

- Esther Williams

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

- Isaac Asimov

(Thoughts on the one film (or films) that made him want to become a filmmaker and why): There was no epiphany from one film. There were a few that stood out over the years. I was 8 when I saw _Ladri di biciclette (1948)_, and it was the first black-and-white film I had ever seen. It triggered my curiosity to start seeing European cinema. When I was 7, I saw The Making of `Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid` (1970). Hearing George Roy Hill talk about all the choices he made, I knew that directing movies was what I wanted to do. I remember seeing Death and Venice 40 times one year, and then switching my allegiance to Godard after seeing Masculine/Feminine! I knew early on that I was a nerd and that films were my refuge. Those first few minutes before the lights went off, and you`re alone in the theater waiting, were really pleasurable. Whether it was Steve McQueen, the coolest guy in cinema, to Robert Altman`s strange and wonderful 3 Women (1977), I saw hundreds of films before I ever picked up a camera. I believe I took something away from each one.

- Alfonso Cuarón

Through ballet I was fortunate to find a place to escape, a refuge from my feelings of being an outsider. The dance studio was the one place I felt accepted and `just like everybody else` was in the dance studio. Hoping to improve the rhythm of my speech, my mother had enrolled me in a ballet class when I was five years old. The ballet class boosted my self-esteem.

- Heather Whitestone

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.

- Russ Feingold

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

- Natalie Barney

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

- Michael Crichton

Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!

- Boris Pasternak

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

- Boris Pasternak

The devastation caused by this is somewhat unprecedented in American history. The Gladiators organization is particularly moved, not only by the images from photographs and television, but by the fact that we have made many friends along the Gulf Coast through our history in Mobile, Alabama and here in Gwinnett. Through our relationship with the Salvation Army, we have learned of the thousands of evacuees that have found refuge in the state of Georgia. Many have been temporarily displaced, but have lost much. Many may have little to return to when they go home. As always, communities throughout America have responded with help and we simply want to do the same through this donation and by helping to spread the word that assistance is needed here in Georgia to help these survivors.

- Steve Chapman

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

- Neal Boortz

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.

- E. Howard Hunt

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.

- Henrik Ibsen

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.

- George Galloway

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

- Adam Kidron

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

- Al Hubbard

I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.

- Al Mau

The Taliban have apparently given refuge to an Arab who is leading a Jihad against the United States and who apparently sponsored the bombings.

- Al Melanson

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States` oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.

- Al Zappala

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

- Alderman Dana McLendon

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

- Alderman Dana McLendon

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

- Alex Rozanski

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

- Alexander Nikonov

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.

- Ali Rahnema

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

- Alice Gilborn

Drilling in the refuge will not solve America`s energy problem. The Energy Department`s own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.

- Alon Tal

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.

- Alon Tal

The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including citizens in formulating a consensus plan that preserves our beautiful refuge.

- Andre Heard

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

- Andrea Ruedi

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

- Andrew Anagnost

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.

- Andrew Natsios

A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there`s more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It`s why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

- Andy Goode

People here in Canada, especially in Atlantic Canada because of that Acadian connection, felt that `well, maybe we could take some of these people in, especially the children. We could offer them a place of temporary refuge,` 

- Anne B. McCoy

I feel that this is going to be the dominant way of living going forward, not only in the super-luxury end but in the luxury end as well. Especially in cities, with everybody being preoccupied with work, and things being so complex and intense, having a home that`s a refuge makes living easier.

- Arif Khan Joy

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

- Ashley Reynolds

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

- Maya Angelou

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

- Oscar Wilde

Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.

- Oscar Wilde

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

- Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

- Oscar Wilde

Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex

- Oscar Wilde