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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde

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

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Robert Frost

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

Aaron Allston

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.

Tony Wilson

Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian.

David Suzuki

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

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

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

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.

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

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Emil Cioran

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

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

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 do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

Susan B. Anthony

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

Dan Lipinski

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Neal Boortz

It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.

Milla Jovovich

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

Oscar Wilde

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

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

George Bernard Shaw

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Emil Cioran

Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.

Marshall McLuhan

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

Quentin Crisp

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

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

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

Ben Nelson

I don't know what I would've done without it. I really struggled in school with reading and writing. Art was my refuge - my way of speaking, of dealing with my own issues and connecting with the world.

Petra Collins

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

Henry S. Haskins

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov

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

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Leonard Cohen

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

Hugh Mackay

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Aaron Allston