Quotes About Retreat

Tao Te Ching says that it is only through retreat rather than pursuit, through inaction rather than action, that we acquire wisdom. "Those with less become content," says the Tao, "those with more become confused." The poems, still widely read, have been hailed as a hermit manifesto for more than two thousand years.

Everyone dreams of dropping out of the world once in a while. Then you get in the car and drive back home.

The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of actual human interactions was so complex.

Virtually every natural feature in Maine, pond to peak, has a proper name, but Knight saw such titles as human impositions and preferred not to know them. He sought a purity to his retreat beyond all measure.

You think that you are an iconoclast, but you're not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.

He who retreats lives longer.

Trump—almost never voluntarily alone, and absolutely never alone and awake without the television on—retreated into his bedroom cabin in silence.

We must reserve a back shop all our own, entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.

the characters aren't the only ones stranded in their country retreat: Huysmans is stranded there, too. It would almost seem that he was trying to go back to Naturalism—the sordid Naturalism of the countryside, where the peasants turn out to be more abject and greedy even than Parisians—if not for the dream sequences, which interrupt and ultimately hobble the story, and make it so impossible to classify.

A gang is where someone goes to hide.

Go into hard things quickly, eagerly, then retreat.

hermetic world.

He who hits and runs away, lives to fight another day.

All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.

Las batallas contra las mujeres son las únicas que se ganan huyendo

What a perfect escape the return to the womb was. Better by far than Religion or Art or the South Sea Islands. It was so snug and warm there, and the feeding was automatic.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

remember, camp is kind of like time-out for adults. Only adults time-out last longer than kids time-out

By mid-afternoon, Villeneuve was forced to abandon any hope of getting his fleet out before dusk.

led the arrivals back to their private

In 2006, after 8 years of losses, Wal-Mart beat a retreat from Germany, selling its stores to Metro, Germany's leading retailer, losing $1 billion in the process.

A masterful retreat is itself a victory.

The retreating slow crack of Blaisedell's bootheels had been a sound as lonely, and as fatal.

For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.