Quotes About Retreat

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be h

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

The Castle. He'd seen this expression far too many times during their marriage. The Castle was Bryony drawing up the gates and retreating deep into the inner keep. And he'd always hated it. Marriage meant that you shared your goddamn castle. You didn't leave your poor knight of a husband circling the walls trying to find a way in.

Despite all her strengths, there was a certain brittleness to her. Sometimes she retreated into her keep. Sometimes she ran away. But she did not forgive and she did not forget.

Overwhelmed by the volume and velocity of our lives, we turn to technology to help us find time. But technology makes us busier than ever and ever more in search of retreat. Gradually, we come to see our online life as life itself.

Then please, Daddy, take me to the farm so we can have a sex retreat.

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove; Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?

There's no cure, except the retreat into love, For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts.

I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.

People love escapism and there should be a place for it.

Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

Woman," Michele said. "You look like you're calling from a cave. Tell me Texas hasn't retreated to the dark ages." "It's ahead of California, if you ask the sun, and everybody in the state," Caitlin said.

Judy hung her head and slunk to the back of the room. She crawled inside the tent. It was kind of like the Toad Pee Club clubhouse inside. Minus any peeing toads, of course. Natch.

cowering in their houses like rabbits in a burrow, and dare the Forest themselves again.

He led the way to a very retired, dismal-looking house amongst the fox-gloves. It

Individual women who had once critiqued and challenged patriarchy re-aligned themselves with sexist men. Radical women who felt betrayed by the fierce negative competition between women often simply retreated

Mas então ouvimos o rugido de batalha, de homens gritando do outro lado do portão da cidade, e vimos nossos francos derrotados correrem da frente da muralha para se juntar

I do not have to tell you there has been a disappointing retreat of progress in recent times, whatever it is we call progress, especially disappointing because of the little we have had since the Emancipation. There's something cursed, it seems to me, about a country where men have owned men as property. The stink of that corruption never escapes the soul, and it is the stink of future evil. Still, the original decrees have not been withdrawn and are therefore the law.

I'm probably going to be retired fishing somewhere in the north of Australia with not a tennis ball in sight.

I would head to the countryside for peace and silence. That would be the best way, away from panicked, hysterical people.

When we stonewall, the most extreme version of dismissal and nonresponsiveness, we mostly do so in order to cut off our emotions; we freeze and retreat into numbness. But when one dancer completely leaves the floor, the dance is no more. This catapults the remaining dancer into the terror of insignificance and abandonment.

Anyone can retire into a quiet place, wrote Evelyn Underhill, but it's the shutting of the door that makes the difference. Solitude is a time for stripping away everything in order to focus on God. (Matt 6:6)