Quotes About Withdrawal

She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.

He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent.

She could shut out the whole world, including herself.

the only pleasure or crutch that smokers receive when they light up, is trying to get back to the level of peace and tranquillity that non-smokers experience the whole of their lives, and that since each cigarette, far from relieving the withdrawal pangs from nicotine, is actually causing them, even that pleasure or crutch is illusory.

Smokers suffer the empty insecure feeling of nicotine withdrawal their entire smoking lives. Nonsmokers never suffer it

The true situation is this: when you are addicted to nicotine and are not smoking, there is something missing.

The only pleasure or crutch smokers receive when they light up is the perceived relief of the empty, insecure feeling of the body withdrawing from nicotine that nonsmokers don't suffer from anyway. 2. Each cigarette, far from relieving the empty feeling, actually causes it, so the perception of a pleasure or crutch is an illusion. It's like putting on tight shoes to get the pleasure or relief of removing them.

decision the president would make in 1948 would prove to be equally profound on the shape of world history when Truman decided to recognize Israel's existence following Britain's rapid withdrawal in 1948 from Palestine.

Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life.

When he last went out, almost twenty-four years ago, he tried to make eye contact, to present what might be considered a normal appearance.

I lost interest in being in the public eye.

I don't go to pubs.

We've had to pull out of so many countries in Northern Africa.

People keep saying Aldo deserves this, he deserves that - how the hell do you deserve something when you pulled out of all these events?

I'll shut myself off from everyone to the point of insensibility. Make an enemy of everyone, speak to no one.

Once Kafka came to regard any philosophy as nothing more than a system of rules to be enforced, a dogma both bigger and smaller than himself, he withdrew from it.

I've been hiding from the real world all my life.

America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

Now the decision was taken to abandon the defence of the European provinces altogether

Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33 000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.

Are you even aware of hot hot and cold you are? How you seduce and then withdraw, tantalize and then retreat? Even with men you're like that. You're a mystery to people, you keep us off-balance and guessing. We have to presume what you're thinking or feeling. And instead of being frustrated we find ourselves fascinated, and we make things up about you out of our own hopes and needs and all the dangerous things we're afraid to do.

She has decided to appear to nobody but the feckless.

I heard a man of brilliance cry out that God has withdrawn from nations when they have turned from Him, and surely we are astiff-necked people; why should He not withdraw? But then I remember Jonah accusing God of overlenience, of foolishness, mercy, and compassion. We desperately need the foolishness of God. (233)