Refuge Quotes

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.
Rudolf Arnheim

Today, Universe, Last

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Last, Making, Trouble

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.
Ron Kind

Beautiful, Successful, Plan

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

Good, Cannot, Vote

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

Matter, Avoid, Debate

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.
Lois Capps

Change, America, Problem

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

Good, United, Create

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

Important, Through, Special

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.
Harry Mathews

Great, Poetry, Writing

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

Time, End, Different

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Self, Betray, Inferior

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

Love, Freedom, Why

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

Start, Natural, Feet

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.
Juno Temple

Mad, Playing, Childhood

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
Aaron Allston

Violence, Violent

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

Energy, National, Poison

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
Heywood Broun

Technical, Objection, Scoundrel

I take refuge in my books.
Julia Ward Howe

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
Henry S. Haskins

Good, Last, Mediocrity

Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
Francis Scott Key

Blood, Save, Slave

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
Antiphanes

Age, Old, Speak

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

Care, Nation, Space

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

Balance, President, Republican

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

War, Cold, Ourselves

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