Quotes About Retreat

They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made....

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacing back and forth, its disastrous retreats!

To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarate, and the performing arts (such as acting and dance) entertain. Literature, however, retreats from life by turning it into a slumber. The other arts make no such retreat – some because they use visible and hence vital formulas, others because they live from human life itself.

Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after years of fighting to defend Europe against attacks from the Eurosceptic right, it would be fatal to retreat into the same arguments and begin the battle anew.

If you're going to have a cabin fever, have a big cabin, you know.

I rather like getting away from fiction.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

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.

My bed is my weird little haven. It's like a deflated tent.

All of my life, when things got too difficult, I folded up the tent and went to bed. I couldn't stand a challenge... I was terrified of confrontation. I was very laid-back, and just wouldn't get involved or fight back.

The Americans did not withdraw from the battlefield in a manner recommended by military manuals. Rather they left in a crowd with no regiment retaining its integrity as a unit. Gates made no attempt to discipline or reorganize this herd, choosing rather to outdistance it astride a fast horse.

If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in.

Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.

Regression is defined here as a psychological retreat to a prior stage of development in order to reduce fear and foster an illusion of security.

She acknowledged, for the first time in her life, the seriousness of her state and was determined to live rather than to act out her retreat from life. Beneath her character armor she had preserved a sense of integrity and honest feelings. Once she stopped withholding her thoughts and feelings, she was free to express her natural interest in life and in other people and became a significant contributor to the group.

When in doubt chicken out.

just walked away.

It is an excellent plan to have some place where we can go to be quiet, when things vex or grieve us.

An aerial view of John D.'s golf hideaway in Lakewood, New Jersey.

Though he considered establishing a weekend house or summer hideaway, he had no exact plan.

Who goes to the hills, goes to his mother.

History is an intricate process. It errs, advances and retreats, searches here, there, and sometimes gets trapped in a dead end. Only the future can judge, can find appropriate measure.

And now that we have introduced her and set her in some sort of context, let us leave her to sip her evening drink and await her dinner guests, while we retreat into the privacy of these pages to tell her tale.

What is needed [to combat terrorism], in my view, is resolve, not retreat; courage, not concession. Rather than thinking in terms of an exit strategy, focus on a strategy for success.