Seeking Refuge Quotes

Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.

I felt impotent and out of control, which I really, really hate. I had to find sanctuary in a place where I could gather my thoughts and regain my strength.

I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.

The people turn to a humane ruler as water flows downward.

No one drives me into exile, not even the nationalists.

Maybe Liz was right and she'd wanted someplace safe. Maybe Mr. Solomon really did understand that running was the only way Macey would find out if we'd run after her. Or maybe, like me, she just wanted to disappear for a little while

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.

Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell and fear it, so that we can practice seeking refuge in Him and, when relief comes give thanks to His mercy. Darkness was created so that, like plants, we could yearn and turn to the light.

Saddam Hussein is dead, and Osama bin Laden is dead. If you’re Moammar Gadhafi, living in exile is starting to sound really good.

Take me home," Snow White said. "Take me home instantly. If there is anything worse than being home, it is being out.

Refugee today means somebody who has no home. No homeland. No security. No government to protect him or her. And it is of course one feels not only uprooted, one feels useless. One feels always surrounded by hostile forces. Arousing suspicion.

Liberty and freedom were the primary reason that people wanted to come here. They wanted to escape bondage, slavery, tyranny, poverty, whatever, where they lived. It was America that promised a much better life.

Weren't you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you going and coming and often staying all night.).

I'm running out of places I can run, looking for a place in the sun.

I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough.

The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.

Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.