Quotes About Retreat

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

A] person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if: (1) He or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself.

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.

Stomach-sleepers like me were in retreat from reality, given to dark perception and the meditative arts. This

Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.

agreed with George, and suggested that we should seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes—some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world—some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.

He thought of Count Tolstoy's book and how, after the horrific, bloody battle of Borodino, the war just seemed to peter out, ending not in bravery but in retreat—exhaustion and the change of seasons having as much to do with the final Russian victory as any decisive action.

I have an awning.

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

In 1987, when I was 19, I was studying musical theater at Boston's Emerson College. My sister, Tricia Leigh, told me about a summer acting retreat in Italy. Mom paid, so off we went.

Finally she said, "Come on, honey, let's go to the ranch.

And sometimes it is better to solemnly retreat into solitude, than to be gravely misunderstood. Author: S.A. Quinox

There is something about a bathroom that feels like a fortress. A closed bathroom door may only be about two inches of plywood, but it feels like an iron bar.

What she was retreating from was any profundity of feeling and therefore any commitment more intense than light church attendance and an interest in roses.... History is of course crammed with people like Mother, who are just sitting it out.

We turned and ran, leaving Zeus hanging.

Yeah, we'll be retreating from now on. Giving ground, instead of taking it. It'll be like this today—losing fights, draws. Stalemates and worse." He raised his feverish eyes toward the ceiling of the little metal housing unit, face wild with passion and misery. "But, by God, we'll give them a run for their money. All the way back! Every inch!

There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milk shake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.

all had the air of a second home, one devoted to leisure rather than struggle.

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.

Je suis venu me réfugier ici au fond d'un château, comme dans un monastère.

What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway.

She wanted to quietly drift back into the shadows and live a life where nobody got hurt. Was that too much to ask?