Quotes About Retreat

When I was young, I was afflicted with what my aunt called "convenient deafness." I still am. I have the ability to tune out what is going on around me. It is normal for me to retreat inside myself and become less and less aware of my surroundings. If I am in a group and not talking, do not suppose I am listening. I am "away." I am off in another world. Off in my natural habitat, my mind. Being

The British House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Hiding leads nowhere except to more hiding.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat; that is progress.

He that fights and runs away Will live to fight another day.

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be beard.

Leisure time is when your wife can't find you

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.

She didn't want Rufty to sit in the box, wanted more private than the lounge.

There is no such thing as self-awareness. Imagine thought retreating into itself to think about itself. It would be easier to imagine a revolver bullet extracting itself from its victim's wound and re-entering the barrel. Yes, it would be easier to imagine the universe's explosion suddenly halting its outflow of energy, so that the galaxies congeal once more, and the millions of light-years of their flight through space are immediately annulled.

There's the hum of the bee drone two blocks away the racket of it you'd think it was right over the roof, when the bee drone swirls nearer and nearer (gulp again) you retreat into the cabin and wait, maybe they got a message to come and see you all two thousand of em- but gettin used to the bee drone finally which seem to happen like a big party once a week- and so everything is eventually marvelous.

In my college years, I would retreat to our summer house for two weeks in June to read a novel a day. How exciting it was, after pouring my coffee and making myself comfortable on the porch, to open the next book on the roster, read the first sentences, and find myself on the platform of a train station.

On some days, I just want to sit under a shooting umbrella in a sunny outdoor location all over again.

More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.

No todas las batallas se ganan avanzando. No todas las retiradas son derrotas. Avanzar es una estrategia. Retirarse es también una estrategia. Una retirada debe realizarse

She needed care and time; enough space not to feel threatened, but not so much that she could retreat.

It was enough to make me feel like retreating into some wooded or snowy clime, where only the most determined photographers or Mary-hunters might find me.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

Never been here before. It's like something on the top floor of a luxury high-rise casino in Atlantic City, where they put semi-retarded adults from South Philly after they've blundered into the mega-jackpot. It's got everything that a dimwitted pathological gambler would identify with luxury: gold-plated fixtures, lots of injection-molded pseudomarble, velvet drapes, and a butler.

When it gets really intolerable, he goes to the latrine (so that the staff will not break in on him at an inopportune moment) and executes a Manual Override.

Arthur Joseph (for voice lessons, infinite wisdom, and an eye-opening Esalen retreat)