Quotes About Retreat

We're just going to retreat?" "We are not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.

Masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

With any major decision there are cautions and considerations to make, but once there has been illumination, beware the temptation to retreat from a good thing. If it was right when you prayed about it and trusted it and lived for it, it is right now.

If you've made the decision to make the kind of money you've never made before, blasting through this terror threshold is critical. So keep an eye out for the rallying cry to retreat, understand that you have arrived at the magical door to the other side, focus on this truth instead of the desire to get into bed and read magazines, and break on through to the other side.

Belle hesitated. "What is this place?" she asked. "A bit of magic, like all good books," the man replied. "An escape. A place where you can leave cares and worries behind." He smiled. "At least for a chapter or two.

Belle hesitated. "What is this place?" she asked. "A bit of magic, like all goodbooks," the man replied. "An escape. A place where you can leave cares and worries behind." He smiled. "At least for a chapter or two." He offered her his arm.

Certain battles were won by retreating.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

others, like me, take refuge in books.

This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour.

Amelia said, "I think women—some women—regard matrimony as a highly honorable retreat from the possibility of failure in the larger world.

Don't think of it so much like running away, Mom. Think of it as escaping.

I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.

I believe that those in the city must be left to work out their own destiny," the hist-techneer said at last. "In a manner of thinking that choice is now a retreat. They wish life to remain as it always has been. But that is just what life never does. It goes up—one advances—or it goes down—one retreats. And if one tried to stand still—that is retreat.

Yet the system prevailed, in all but details. One could conform, rebel, or withdraw – and Alan withdrew.

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

I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever," she'd said once. "Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.

Charles B. MacDonald, the author of the Army's official account, described the retreat:

led by Lieutenants Price and Volkmar, the pursuing Indians retreated. North rode his horse in a circle, according to Cody, "a traditional plains signal for `enemy in sight." North's Pawnee scouts "broke ranks pell inell and, with Major North at their head, started

Fear is not designed to make us feel that we are fragile creatures in an environment full of danger. Its function is to stimulate powerful physical responses, allowing an animal to retreat in time. After the event, it is supposed to go away. An animal that cannot let go of its fears once the threat is gone will find it hard ro eat and sleep.

The solution is a form of retreat inside ourselves, to the past, to more concentrated forms of thought and action. As Schopenhauer wrote, "Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

frente a los agresivos, retírate, déjalos conseguir sus pequeñas victorias.

He sought refuge in his books