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Quotes About Retreat

Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.
~ Brock Clarke
It is not necessary for being with GOD to be always at church; we may make an oratory of our heart, wherein to retire from time to time, to converse with Him in meekness, humility, and love. Every one is capable of such familiar conversation with GOD, some more, some less: He knows what we can do.
~ Brother Lawrence
It is not necessary for being with GOD to be always at church: we may make an oratory of our heart wherein to retire from time to time to converse with Him in meekness, humility and love. Every one is capable of such familiar conversation with GOD, some more, some less: He knows what we can do. Let us begin, then. Perhaps
~ Brother Lawrence
In the 1840s the Nisqually Glacier reached about nine hundred feet past the Nisqually River bridge on the Paradise Road. Today the terminus sits more than a mile upvalley. The Carbon is currently in mild retreat; the ice at the terminus is melting back faster than the motion of the glacier can push it ahead. It has shrunk twenty feet every year since 1986.
~ Bruce Barcott
We made a promise we swore we'd always rememberNo retreat, baby, no surrender.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Gürültüden kaçmak, kendini kitlenin uÄŸultusuna, o bir yanarda??nkini and?ran, yeralt?ndan gelen, hiç bitmeyecekmiÅŸ gibi aral?ks?z süren, tembel dalgalar halinde alana yay?lan uÄŸultuya kapamak için art?k hayattan kopar?l?rcas?na al?n?p götürülme düÅŸüncesi, hiç kuÅŸkusuz çekici gelen bir düÅŸünceydi;
~ Hermann Broch
And he, Achilles, will rouse his companion Patroclus, whom shining Hector with his spear will kill in front of Ilion, after Patroclus has destroyed a multitude of other young men, among them my own son, godlike Sarpedon; and enraged at Patroclus dying, godlike Achilles will kill Hector. And from that point, then, without respite, I will effect a retreat from the ships, all the way until that time the Achaeans?70 capture steep Ilion through the designs of Athena.
~ Homer
Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than to retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray, and the bullet would never miss.
~ Ian Fleming
She was not in pain, not yet, but she was retreating before its threat.
~ Ian Mcewan
A calming place, where you can go to escape it all and just focus on your body, is so wonderful to have.
~ Mary Helen Bowers
When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
~ Jack Antonoff
It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.
~ Gerd von Rundstedt
Found my tropical paradise here in Bali.
~ Pia Wurtzbach
Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
~ Francesca Annis
Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.
~ Katharine Tynan
Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.
~ Beth Orton
I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
If a hippo ever wants to fight, just walk away.
~ Dan Brown
I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.
~ Francois Hollande
If it is peace you seek then you need only turn and walk away. Leave." "To leave here is to arrive elsewhere. I cannot retreat from disorder, for it shall surely follow. Peace must be asserted where one finds oneself. Only when discord is resolved will there be peace.
~ Steven Erikson
But what did Tattersail teach you? "If things get too hot," he said, "pull out, Toc. Ride
~ Steven Erikson
If he could shut himself away from all this, hide his being deep within his mind, he might survive.
~ Storm Constantine
The Khaster that should have been had disappeared deep inside him.
~ Storm Constantine
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
~ Sun Tzu