Quotes About Withdrawal

aloof from the society of ordinary mortals

accepting a cease-fire, threatening to cause a run on the British pound or drive its value to zero if Eden didn't require his withdrawing commanders to step lively. France had no choice but to go along, and the two nations ended their military operations that night at midnight and effected their withdrawal the first week of December, whereupon the International Monetary Fund disbursed $1.3 billion to the British Exchequer.

If people do not think we are serious on the economy or about supporting great business, withdrawing from the world, not being strong on our international alliances... I think that could further undermine support for us.

I was just kind of sour with the sport. I didn't want anything to do with it. I went into a period of excessive partying and doing anything that wasn't figure skating, really. I went and built a house with my brother. I shut the whole world out and shut everything down.

It is quite important to withdraw from all unnecessary cares and business, as far as compatible with the duties of one's state of life, in order to enter the second mansion.

It is certain, my Lord, that in these days withdrawal from the world means no sacrifice at all.

As for flight, just a reminder that someone can sit inches away from another and still flee—they just do so internally. We call that stonewalling.

For a spiritual person, it is commendable to rarely venture out, avoid being seen, and have no desire to see others.

This is the essence of all games. Games are a way of using time for people who cannot bear the stroking starvation of withdrawal and yet whose NOT OK position makes the ultimate form of relatedness, intimacy, impossible.

I need my time to be lonely.

I have no desire to ever be involved in the image-board world again.

Gandhi gave a statement at his trial. "I am endeavoring to show to my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that as evil can only be sustained by violence, withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence," he said.

You could shut life out. If you didn't answer the door to it, how was it going to get in?

Un'altra cosa è che non importa quanto tu possa amare una persona: ti tirerai indietro quando il suo sangue ti scorre troppo vicino.

We compromised on my withdrawal. I didn't. We British don't withdraw from Ireland.

She lacks mystery; and the charm people have who withdraw, and don't care to coin their views. One figures her always in flight; so much determined to embrace everything that she fails.

Solitude was corrupting me.

As the city clocks struck nine on Monday morning, Mrs Clennam was wheeled by Jeremiah Flintwinch of the cut-down aspect to her tall cabinet. When she had unlocked and opened it, and had settled herself at its desk, Jeremiah withdrew—as it might be, to hang himself more effectually—and her son appeared.

The procrastination, the laziness, the halfhearted attempts, the going through the motions—all indicate that the old story isn't motivating you anymore. What once made sense, makes sense no longer. You are beginning to withdraw from that world. Society does its best to persuade you to resist that withdrawal, which, when resisted, is called depression.

abstract' comes from a Latin verb which simply meant 'draw away' (abstrahere).

since the other cannot in the end, and should not ever, carry responsibility for the task of our life, the projections inevitably wear away and the relationship has a tendency to deteriorate into a power struggle. When the other does not conform to our relationship agenda, we often seek to control them through admonishment, withdrawal, passive/aggressive sabotage, and sometimes overtly controlling behaviors.

But when he had sung his song and withdrawn into a snug corner of the room he began to taste the joy of his loneliness.

I think Israel suffered a certain trauma from a unilateral step of pulling out of Gaza.

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.