Quotes About Retreat

King remarked, thinking back to Montgomery four years earlier. "If there is one lesson experience has taught us … it is that when you have found by the help of God a correct course, a morally sound objective, you do not equivocate, you do not retreat—you struggle to win a victory.

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

The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.

I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.

Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.

There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden. Where can Brigitte Bardot hide?

Longfellow smiled. "A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, my dear Lowell, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

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

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

History tells me that when the Russians come to a country they don't go back.

Home is where you hang your hangover.

Going into the woods, is going home

Home is the place you can go when you're whipped.

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

I have a home in Orlando. That's kind of my default "getaway" city.

It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.

Home is where your books are.

I would like to have a home in the country that I could go to. First in this country and the other in the Mediterranean.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

I havent had the whole famous thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot.

Sometimes I go into my own little world. It's okay, they know me there.