Retreat Quotes

I think the desire to reject elites, to retreat within more comfortable geographic and personal borders and to lash out at political correctness is not a phenomenon unique to Britain or the US.

I believe, and always have, that America must engage - not retreat - in the world.

Life doesn't retreat.

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.

The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.

Senator Marco 'amnesty' Rubio, while proponents of immigration reform say the Florida Republican was quick to retreat when the going got tough.

What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.

I've decided to retreat to the spirit world where I feel appreciated and understood.

I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.

Studying with a teacher doesn't simply mean going to an occasional seminar or Zen retreat. It means fully applying yourself to what the teacher says, most of which is not verbal.

What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

I think it's very hard to fight the war on terrorism if we're in retreat.

In a retreat the lame are formost. [In a retreat the lame are foremost.]

A woman's noblest station is retreat.

One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

I had gotten to the point where I just didn't want to perform anymore - I didn't want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.

I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.

Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy.

Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.

Don't fret, Grannie. We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.

When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.

After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person.

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.

Warriors say: I dare not be like the host, but would rather be like the guest. I dare not advance an inch, but would rather retreat a foot.

There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game.

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.

Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat.

Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

I rarely feel like I'm in chaos, but when I am, I usually [retreat] and try to find the eye of the storm; if I'm still and listen and don't engage, maybe the chaos will subside.

Fight them everywhere. Don't give them a chance to breathe until they withdraw and retreat.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

Its no coincidence that the word holiday suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.

The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.