#refuge

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#consolations #corner #create #creatures #deserves

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

#allowing #barrels #billions #drilling #feet

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

#all-around #dissent #duty #matter #often

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge. ↗

— Richard Wagner

#anything #ask #change #even #good

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#refuge #suicide

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#failure #last #refuge

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#refuge #seriousness #shallow

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

— Oscar Wilde

#conversation #last #refuge #unimaginative #weather

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle. ↗

— James Wolcott

#been #book #critics #cultural #dance

We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#citizens #necessary #our #preparing #ready