#refuge

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#among #ancient #beach #disturbs #every

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge. ↗

— William Gaddis

#birth #computer #entire #grandfather #i

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 #citizens #consensus #demonstrated #formulating

The world has closed its eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe in Azerbaijan, where every seventh citizen is a refugee. ↗

— Leonid Kuchma

#citizen #closed #every #eyes #humanitarian

One should measure their life by the faith they embrace and the relationships they cherish ↗

— John Paul Warren

#central-christian-church #john-paul-warren #leadership #motivational #sozo-life

There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul #john-paul-warren #leadership #motivational #pastor-john-paul-warren

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

— Antiphanes

#ills #old #old age #refuge #sanctuary

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

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#failure #last #refuge