Retreat Quotations

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.

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

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

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.

The Sanctuary at Two Rivers offers a much needed escape or retreat from the fast paced, modern lifestyle we have all become accustomed to, with its exquisite beauty, serenity, and raw nature. Costa Rica was the perfect place for developing such an important project.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

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.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

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

I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy.

I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support.

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.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.

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

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.

On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the rubble, many in the deep cellars left from Roman times. They had been hiding there after the retreat from France.

David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.

All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles.

These days when you say 'videogame', people think of immersive games that take over your life and require three thumbs to control. My goal is to create games that almost retreat into the background. I'm interested in bringing them back to their role as a social facilitator, the way party games help people to interact.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

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

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will.

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

I've never been in a Sweat Lodge. I, myself, personally don't even like sitting in a sauna, so I've never been to a spiritual retreat so I don't understand the whole process.

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

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.

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

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

The power and promise of the Internet is that anyone can write and distribute code for tens of millions of others to adopt and run. The downside of this is that bad code can too readily get onto the public's PCs. Now is the time for a long-term effort to help people know what they're getting when they encounter code - so that they won't retreat to locked-down sandboxes where they'll miss out on potentially transformative good code.

We're in a mode where it feels like there's no free time, but there really is. To live a good life is not about going to a meditation retreat one weekend a year. It's about moment by moment, every day. You've got to train yourself, train yourself to be calm.

We know what the writing on the wall is, ... We need to make sure we continue to pay down the debt. That's been one of our objectives all the way along the line. So it's not a retreat at all.

So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.

Happy couples make it a habbit to refocus. Because it's quite normal to be distracted. So they talk. They get away for a while. They pray. They go on a marriage retreat. They take a second honeymoon or a 3rd, or 4th, or a 5th..

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She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

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

We're absolutely moving in the wrong direction. Our policy is retreat from the ocean, not building closer.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.

When times are tough like this, and they certainly are challenging, it's not a time to recoil or retreat from the situation. You've got to be strong, and you've got to play your plan out as best you can.

making a retreat so as to advance better.

Share prices fell in knee-jerk reaction to a retreat on Wall Street overnight. Investors also took a breather after the benchmark Nikkei index added more than 200 points yesterday.

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.

If they were to lose the seat it would send a bad message, that they're in retreat on some pretty important battlegrounds. It's a district that Republicans should win, and if they don't win, there's a problem.

But as we have shown during the past two years, America will not be intimidated, nor will we retreat from the world,

From his calls for retreat and defeat in Iraq to censuring the president, the senator is more consumed with his own political future than national security.

Further evidence of stability in the housing market and solid retail activity could prompt a rethink of MPC easing risk now priced in, allowing the euro to retreat sharply against the pound.

Given the nature of the enemy we face today, and the fact that their ultimate objective is to force us to change our policies and to retreat within our borders, the last thing we need is to convey the impression that terrorists can change our policies through violence and intimidation,

We think expectations of higher interest rates are far more likely to strengthen than to retreat significantly.

Huge swings in energy and motor vehicle prices have masked a sharp retreat in core producer inflation over the past 6 months.

The only thing that can take yields down is a total retreat in equity prices.

I think it's a major step forward, I don't think it signals any retreat from vigorous enforcement.

It is a dangerous illusion to suppose that another retreat by the civilized world would satisfy the appetite of the terrorists and get them to leave us alone.

Last month's Supreme Court ruling that federal judges are not bound by sentencing guidelines is a retreat from justice that may put the public's safety in jeopardy, ... Which of our daughters, wives and husbands -- are we willing to sacrifice to return to revolving door justice.

It is obvious that the government is on the retreat so we have to keep pushing to the end. Today is already a great success because the turn-out is as big as last week's.

I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.

People looking for a private retreat with a lot of land, seclusion and a feeling of living 100 years ago.

We pursue that which retreats from us.

Though there may be pockets of resistance, the idea that this is some kind of tactical retreat is just the latest Taliban lie. They are in total collapse,

There is momentum for a retreat in the oil pricing as the focus of the market is on the bearish fundamentals.

To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

The degree of retreat was greater than ever before.

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an area usable either for recreation, science or for wildlife, but the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible. It follows, then, that any wilderness program is a rearguard action, through which retreats are reduced to a minimum.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

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

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

Life doesn't retreat.

We should see a retreat in prices after the US inventory data is released. That's because I expect a significant build in crude, in the range of five to six million barrels.

To retreat before victory has been won would be a reckless act, and this president and our party will not allow it.

There is no retreat on the fixed timetable of the declaration of the state. It will be declared at the fixed time, which is September 13, God willing, regardless of those who agree or disagree,

Two staff members on the island attempted to search the area where the missing person was thought to be but had to retreat due to further volcanic activity and the track being impassable with fallen trees and ash.

While we appreciate and are grateful for the government's comments and narrative of Mr. Fortier's labor in the past three years to assist the government in the investigation and prosecution of these cases, the retreat of support for Mr. Fortier as a trial witness and lukewarm endorsement in that regard is factually inaccurate,

We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.

We have to find a way which is not a retreat and at the same time allows the unions to come back to the negotiating table.

We expect the yield curve to invert further as long as US stocks continue to show no signs of a retreat and the Fed is priced to tighten.

Everything that's happening in Marietta today is the result of their goals four years ago. The vision of the goals crafted at the retreat will be presented to the public for input.

Consumers' upbeat mood about current business and labor conditions underscores the economy's continuing recovery, but the latest retreat in expectations suggest that the pace of economic growth will not accelerate in the months ahead,

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

These acts will not make us ... retreat from our role in fighting terror in all its forms,

The small retreat is probably due to the dollar coming back a bit.

People retreat to the sidelines, licking their wounds. The whole process is not as attractive anymore.

a dangerous illusion to suppose that another retreat by the civilized world would satisfy the appetite of the terrorists and get them to leave us alone.

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.