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For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Many experts are concerned that the parents who need safe havens the most are the least likely to use them. -- Wil S. Hylton
The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them. -- Natasha Lyonne
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations. -- Cofer Black
In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our children are allowed to dream, play, make a mess and, yes, clean it up, we teach them respect for themselves and others. -- Julia Cameron
If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street. -- Joseph Rykwert
Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same way they come down on countries that trade with Iran and Cuba, we'd have no tax havens in the world. -- Ha-Joon Chang
I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.' -- Richie Havens
We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share. -- George Osborne
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. -- David Quammen
Cowards only find courage in the number of their likeness, citing their lofty strongholds as havens for their impunity. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around. -- Sylvia Earle
...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create. -- John Pugsley
Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from. -- Frederick Buechner
We want to put a stop to tax havens. We want results on this, with a list of tax havens and a series of consequences. -- Nicolas Sarkozy
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators. -- Michael Barone
And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
We're in a pretty tumultuous world, and there's a lot of uncertainty. Treasurys are where people go as one of the few safe havens in the world. -- Gary Shilling
All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; there is no virtue like necessity. -- William Shakespeare
The True's towns, with colorful names like Dry Bend, Jerusalem's Lot, Oree, and Sidewinder, were safe havens, but they never stayed in those places for long; mostly they were migratory. -- Stephen King
In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes. -- Sue Kaufman
The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement. -- Hugo Black

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