That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
If I charge, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, revenge me.
Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.
Blame is the coward’s retreat. They think it frees them, but it confines them… Blame is also the coward’s warden.
We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.
I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.
It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.
Take it from me, that kind of torment causes you to retreat to a place in your mind where you are so strong that nothing and no one can bother you. Or so you think! What you don't realize is that each time an incident occurs, you retreat inside of yo...
Men are easily threatened. And whenever a man is threatened, when he becomes uncomfortable in places within himself that he does not understand, he naturally retreats into an arena of comfort or competence, or he dominates someone or something in ord...
Minstrel: [singing] Brave Sir Robin ran away... Sir Robin: No! Minstrel: [singing] bravely ran away away... Sir Robin: I didn't! Minstrel: [singing] When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled. Sir Robin: I never did! Minstr...
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
We should kill the future, so the present has no choice but to retreat into the past.
Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
