Quotes About Retreat

Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.

Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

Here is our rapin' cave. It's not much of a cave... and we haven't done much rapin'... but man, we've had some good times.

One of the innate dilemmas of biography is that life is not much like a book. It rarely contains a clearly stated thesis, coherently developed. Life sprawls, stumbles, advances, retreats, gropes for the light switch, and once in a while makes intuitive leaps whose import is barely understood until later, if ever, by the leaper. Life seems to me an improvisation .

There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.

expresado se instala en el aire y es difícil hacerlo retroceder.

In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers...

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

The untimely death of John compelled him to accept an advantageous treaty; but he still continued, the subject and the soldier of Valentinian, to entertain a secret, perhaps a treasonable, correspondence with his Barbarian allies, whose retreat had been purchased by liberal gifts, and more liberal promises.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Let us run into a safe harbor.

Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument.

This is grief. You feel ripped in half. Half of you wanting to retreat, to disappear, to find a place where no one asks questions. And then there's the part of you that wants to remember, has to remember because if you don't, not only will the day cease to exist but so will the reality of that moment.

My happy place is my bedroom. I love it.

Home is where I climb out of my mecha-suit-of-a-poised-persona and power down.

My closet is my happy place.

Shawn Michaels is one of those wise-cracking guys who would say a smart comment to you, but then if you face him, he would run and cry somewhere.

I like Palm Springs because of the sunshine. It's a little city surrounded by mountains.

People are going to a place like Pugwash and that whole area to escape from industry, to have the serenity of the surroundings and the beauty.

I've never been in a Sweat Lodge. I, myself, personally don't even like sitting in a sauna, so I've never been to a spiritual retreat so I don't understand the whole process.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.