Quotes About Retreat

Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

A coward is not someone who goes right to your face and tells you exactly how it is. A coward is someone who walks away.

I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

It's wrong to become a bully yourself or to take it out on other people, and in my case, I just retreated to a place where I was safe. And that place was my imagination, books, and television.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

Mahatma Gandhiji had unlimited courage, so he could fight against the British at the risk of his life, not by talking of non-violence only. He never retreated when it was necessary to show courage. But what is the use of finding fault with weapons when we have no courage to fight? We were only boasting about non-violence without strength

A man's library is a sort of harem.

He seemed to hasten the retreat of departing light by his very presence; the setting sun dipped sharply, as though fleeing before our nigger; a black mist emanated from him; a subtle and dismal influence; a something cold and gloomy that floated out and settled on all the faces like a mourning veil. The circle broke up. The joy of laughter died on stiffened lips.

That solitude promotes insight as well as change," Storr continues, "has been recognized by the great religious leaders"—including the Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed—"who have usually retreated from the world before returning to it to share what has been revealed to them.

In the retreat to a heterosexist conception of black identity, the jargon of racial authenticity does not repudiate but instead reveals its reliance on the white supremacist logic from which it purports to declare its independence.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

You think such an attitude is admirable. Manly, heroic even. 'Lived harmlessly.' 'Kept to himself.' Hide away somewhere and your past will cease to exist. You won't have to account for it. You'll feel no obligation to explain your actions or justify them because you've gone away and you expect your victims to go away too. It's like leaving the scene of an accident . . . Or a marriage. Even a field of battle.

If ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled life, I know of none more promising than this little valley.

It was here I usually retired to banquet on my novels

Qualche volta bisogna avere il coraggio di ritirarsi

It was the Soviet Union under Stalin that defeated Adolf Hitler, not the United States, which only intervened once Hitler was in retreat.

Ako ne možeš da deluješ u pogibeljnoj sprezi tih protivure?nih sila, moralnih i pesni?kih, povuci se. Zalivaj kupus u svome vrtu, a ruže gaji samo na groblju. Jer ruže su pogubne po dušu.

Reading... a vacation for the mind....

Kierkegaard's analysis of this "fear of freedom" is an intriguing one, pursued and expanded on by philosophers as different as Jean-Paul Sartre and Erich Fromm (1900–80). It can make individuals and whole societies "inauthentic". People, as individuals or en masse, are too often happy to "escape" this fear by retreating into an obedience to ideologies dictated by others.

post?' At first, he said yes and Ashley started retreating. Then David decided he didn't need him there after all. Ashley came back towards the 18 yard line just as Zizou stepped up towards the ball. Did we, for whatever reason, let our concentration drop for a split second? If we did, it cost us. I'd say, though, that that equaliser was all about the

the health of the Earth, not the health of people, in mind. This is why it is much too late for sustainable development; what we need is a sustainable retreat.

TEN MINUTES LATER, we were at the door of "Lake Expectations," the Monroes' cabin retreat, named after Mr. Monroe's favorite book.