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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. -- Oscar Wilde
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Isaac Asimov
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life. -- George Bernard Shaw
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. -- Leonard Cohen
I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill. -- Ben Nelson
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved. -- Dan Lipinski
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. -- Maya Angelou
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. -- Gilbert Parker
The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. -- Robert Dold
It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. -- Robert Dold
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. -- Jim Ramstad
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. -- Tom Daschle
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. -- Bob Ney
If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.' -- Jeff Goodell
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. -- Mac Thornberry
This fight against drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a fight about our principles. Its about standing up for our environment, our families and our future, and I wont give up this fight. -- John F. Kerry
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. -- Ernest Hemingway
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. -- Tara Brach
Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's by just 3 miles a gallon and save more oil within 10 years than we could ever produce from the Arctic Refuge... -- Ed Markey
I write about nuclear tests in Refuge - "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." With so many of the women in my family being diagnosed with breast cancer, mastectomies led to one-breasted women. I believe it is the result of nuclear fallout. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling is bad public policy that has no place in the budget process,. The Budget Committee needs to leave drilling in the Arctic Refuge behind and focus on crafting this year's budget package. -- Russ Feingold
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. -- Aristotle
What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they'll think they can do anything to the environment - anything at all. Drilling in Yosemite? In the Grand Canyon? What's next? -- Barbara Boxer
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
I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything around me that was familiar had been turned inside out with my mother's diagnosis of ovarian cancer and with the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge being flooded. -- Terry Tempest Williams
You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still won't reverse the fact that our oil production is in permanent decline. We're just sopping up what's left, digging ourselves into a deeper hole. -- Roscoe Bartlett
There is no refuge from yourself. -- Matt Rasmussen
College is a refuge from hasty judgment. -- Robert Frost
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson
Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel! -- Michael Crichton
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. -- Oscar Wilde
Home is the sacred refuge of our life. -- John Dryden
Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose
The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Charles P. Kindleberger
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. -- Oscar Wilde
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. -- Aristotle
The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument. -- George Carlin
Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment. -- Reb Anderson
We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what's happening. That awareness can be our refuge. -- Sharon Salzberg
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. -- Oscar Wilde
Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence. -- James Cash Penney
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. -- Aristotle
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. -- Daniel Webster
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. -- George Sand
Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace. -- Max Lucado
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does. -- Tony Wilson
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. -- Toni Morrison
A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally. -- Vera Wang
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. -- Lois Capps
The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world. -- Mahmoud Abbas
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. -- Michael Jordan
For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge. -- Alex Berenson
Your home is your refuge. -- George Carlin
Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Art is man's refuge from adversity. -- Menander
Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge. -- Max Frisch
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. -- Emile M. Cioran
Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels. -- Neal Boortz
...the haunted always take refuge in stillness. -- Christina Dodd
Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave. -- C. L. R. James
God, you are my refuge into eternity -- Sophie Scholl
Art still has truth. Take refuge there. -- Matthew Arnold
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. -- Lord Chesterfield
music became my refuge and then my salvation. -- Lena Horne
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative. -- Oscar Wilde
Conspiracy theories are the refuge of the disempowered. -- Roger Cohen
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. -- Lord Chesterfield
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive -- Oscar Wilde
Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. -- Quentin Crisp
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent. -- Aaron Allston
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. -- Lord Chesterfield
Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. -- Henry S. Haskins
Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor. -- William Plomer
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. -- Alfred North Whitehead
God who preceded all existence is a refuge... -- Maimonides
Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt. -- Cassandra Clare
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument. -- Thomas Sowell
Comedy is the last refuge of the non-comformist mind. -- Gilbert Seldes
Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus. -- Christopher Hitchens
Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. -- Orson Welles
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For someone who needs refuge, a key is provided. -- Anna Keesey
A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility. -- Jean Cocteau
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. -- Emile M. Cioran
Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity. -- Tacitus
Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality -- Mira Grant
Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge. -- Martin Luther
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings. -- Bob Dylan
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. -- Heywood Broun
O Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations. -- Saint Boniface
Love is a little haven of refuge from the world. -- Bertrand Russell
Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. -- Mitch Albom
We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there. -- Mason Cooley
The word fate... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure. -- Andrew Soutar
Precision in dress is the neurotic refuge of the perpetually insecure. -- G. Bruce Boyer
Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves. -- Comtesse Diane
The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant ... -- George Eliot
Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment. -- George Bernard Shaw
Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world. -- Oscar Wilde
Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows. -- Mason Cooley
He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself. -- Philo
To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self. -- Publilius Syrus
It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge. -- Paloma Faith
I trust in God. He is my provider, refuge, and shelter. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Coco Chanel
Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports. -- Mason Cooley
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate. -- Democritus
My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. -- Cam Newton
There is no refuge from confession but suicide and suicide is confession -- Daniel Webster
Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education. -- Aldous Huxley
Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion. -- Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter
I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me. -- Ibn Ata Allah

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