Quotes About Retreat

Nice concept. -What is? -Retreating. Getting away from the grind. -Oh, you never do. You just change gears.

Plan F, we follow Plan F, right now. - Is that the one where we run away? - Not at all. It's the one where we beat a dignified emergency retreat.

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

British General Andrew Skeen, who faced a similar military mission in 1939, wrote, "When planning a military expedition into Pashtun tribal areas, the first thing you must plan is your retreat. All expeditions into this area sooner or later end in retreat under fire.

England had decidedly turned its back on any expressions of what we might call serious Christian belief. Having led to so much division and violence, religion was now in full-scale retreat. The churches of mid-eighteenth-century England all but abandoned orthodox, historical Christianity and now preached a tepid kind of moralism that seemed to present civility and the preservation of the status quo as the summum bonnum.

Since the time of the Puritans and the religious wars of the previous century, England had decidedly turned its back on any expressions of what we might call serious Christian belief. Having led to so much division and violence, religion was now in full-scale retreat.

It was the apparent isolation of the place that touched her; it was somewhere she felt she could be separated from the rest of the world.

Sheila backed off—for the moment.

sometimes vacation together.

There are, of course, three ways to hide behind a sofa.

I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.

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I take refuge in my books.

It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world.

For anyone who can only handle about 12-minutes-per-day of anything news related before needing to retreat into isolation, allow me to recommend spending those 12 minutes listening to the opening monologue of 'The Rush Limbaugh Show.'

The real reason I love Bamburgh is that it's the only place in the world where I ever truly relax.

There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.

I like to go to places where you can relax a little after you're done working.

Unless the movie is about to release, I don't like to be in the limelight. Then I have no choice, but after that you have to get back.

I like to escape to hotels.

Item 33: Get the fuck out of Dodge. Check, check, check.

With a terrified yelp, the guard turned tail and ran the other way.

I told her that I'd done things in my youth that had placed me beyond the comfort and shelter of love, and so i had conducted my life in retreat.

The gym was my sanctuary. The place where you could forget about all your worries, your problems, people asking you for money, people asking you to do this, do that.