Quotes About Retreat

Mount Abu is a beautiful place.

My mom lives on a mountain in the Catskills.

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

When I first got famous in the '60s, I got a little too famous, and in order to escape showbusiness, I moved to Hawaii.

I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.

When I'm scared, my natural state is to hide and run for cover.

He didn't want to do this… He had come here to hide.

A person's mind is his last sanctuary. - Brom

Our army is retreating. The Sachakans are following. They will be here soon. We must be ready. The servants are bringing horses." He paused and frowned at one of the apprentices. "Stop wating time asking stupid questions and see if your horse is here!" he snapped. He turned and pointed. "You! Arelenin. I can see someone bringing your horse. Yes, I'd hardly miss that ugly beast if it were on the other side of the country. Go and get it.

Then lest the people should repeat Their visit to his calm retreat, Away from Chitrakúá¹­a's hill Fared Ráma ever onward

Fortunes of all major nations have followed specific trajectories of rise and retreat, but perhaps the greatest difference in their paths has been the time they spent at the top of their performance: some had a relatively prolonged plateau followed by steady decline (both the British empire and the 20th-century United States fit this pattern); others had a swift rise to a brief peak, followed by a more or less rapid decline. Japan is clearly in the latter category.

His face seemed to be in retreat from a sharp nose, as if he'd been caught in the teeth of a gale at birth.

There exist crab-like souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to augment their deformity, growing-incessantly worse, and becoming more and more impregnated with an ever-augmenting blackness

For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place

Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?

Every time I annoy him he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.

We will go to my lodge, yes? I will make you happy there where no one can see.

As quickly as they had advanced, the Comanches retreated. Loretta, buffeted by the wind, stood alone on the flats until they rode from sight. When she could no longer hear the tattoo of their horses' hooves, she held up her hands and stared at the smears of crimson that stained her skin. Hunter's blood. The ultimate sacrifice. And he had made it without a second's hesitation, out of love for her. The pain that knowledge caused her ran too deep for tears.

Reading a good book can be like being on vacation!

It was one of those nights that's a really good time to have four walls and a door to close.

Come forward. Come in from the summer heat and the flies. Come in from that assault on all senses, that pummelling of rod and cone and drum and cilia. Come in from the great spotlight of the sun, sweeping across the white sands, making everyone, and therefore no one, a star. Come inside and meet the prologue.

Numinbah Valley

Is there a place you can go to break away for a little while? If you haven't yet built your tree house, it's never too late to start.

I had retreated to reporting because I doubted the reality of my inner voice