Quotes of: Retreated Keyword

Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.

Thin Skin

It's 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.

Pico Iyer

The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.

Taiye Selasi

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.

Christopher Koch

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.

Ferdinand Foch

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

Conor Oberst

Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians.

Conrad Black

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

William Lloyd Garrison

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

William Lloyd Garrison

One of the most momentous, yet all but invisible, psychological changes in human history has been the intensification of a sense of insecurity and alienation from the world around us that arose when we became no longer able easily to get food in a fe...

The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China

Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.

Endgame

There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.

The Buried Pyramid

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

Nhat Hanh

I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.

Sam Taylor-Wood

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

Mastery

How sick are you? Holy crap. Are you dying or something? Is that why you’re going on a retreat and eating only lettuce?

Unexpected

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Norman Mailer

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

Philip Kearny

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

Richard Leakey

Pray with a pure heart and pray from where you are. He will answer your prayers. There is no need to abandon the world or retreat to a jungle

Shri Radhe Maa