Quotes of Haven - somelinesforyou

“ There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. ”

- Daniel Webster

“ Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! ”

- John Belushi

“ College is a refuge from hasty judgment. ”

- Robert Frost

“ As he's getting a second project that he can use for border patrol or port surveillance, in our ports or any other number of shorter missions. ”

- John Craig

“ It is easy to give advice from a port of safety. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration. ”

- Jawahar Lal Neheru

“ We, in turn, will work with our neighbors to ensure that Iraq is never again a haven for terrorists. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ We need to be smarter about now we wage a war on terror. We need to deny them the recruits. We need to deny them the safe havens. We need to rebuild our alliances. ”

- John F. Kerry

“ The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements. ”

- John Marshall Harlan

“ Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. ”

- Ben Hecht

“ The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced. ”

- Gilbert Adair

“ The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ My home…It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ 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

“ In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes. ”

- Susan Kaufman

“ To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. ”

- Henry Van Dyke

“ There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavor and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbor in the end. ”

- Dame Barbara Ward

“ Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. ”

- Edward P. Morgan

“ Caboose, cabin car, crummy, way car, van, ape cage, throne room, hack, buggy, the office, shanty, monkey house, bedbug haven-American railroaders have known the last car on a freight train by all these names and more, and often as an ever-so-humble home. ”

- Donald Dale Jackson

“ The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest. ”

- Albert Barnes
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