#refuge

College is a refuge from hasty judgment. ↗

— Robert Frost

#hasty #judgment #refuge

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#collected #england #ever #food #money

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. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#across #boundaries #flowing #genes #idea

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

#basketball #been #comfort #everything #evolved

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination. ↗

— Stephen King

#back #bit #closed #forced #get

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#admired #being #fall #haven #little

Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#close #could #europe #germany #greece

what it is...is a place where I can return to myself. It's enough of a scramble to get to...that the energy expended is significant, and it translates into a change in my body chemistry and my psychological chemistry and my heart chemistry... ↗

— Jay Salter

#hiking #nature #refuge #utah #change

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#last #refuge #unimaginative

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

#bring #currency #economic #first #inflation