Quotes About Retreat

Where Abbott was most himself, Shorten beat a retreat. "For Labor, national security is – and always will be – above politics," he says but what he means is that Labor will buckle whenever the government declares security is at stake.

The world and its institutions engulf and suffocate us. We runners find our sanctuary in retreating to the roadways and trails, our sacred reprieve. The wonder isn't that we go; it's that we come back.

Don't you wish you could live inside a book sometimes?" "All the time.

A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh.

Extend your vacation whenever possible.

My favorite place for taking a vacation is found in my library.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

Jeg trekker meg tilbake til en verden der styggheten eksisterer.

A teacher of meditation once told the story of a man who wanted nothing to do with the stress of life, so he retreated to a cave to meditate day and night for the rest of his life. But soon he came out again, driven to overwhelming distress by the sound of the dripping of water in his cave. The moral is that, at least to some extent, the stresses will always be there

Both Pierson and Roselie gaped at her very proper response- for here they were making a very improper retreat out of Alack's, down the steps and nearly to the carriage-clogged street outside and Miss Tempest sounded like the finest graduate of a Bath school. I might be cowhanded, my lord, she told him pertly, but I am not rag-mannered. I like her, Roselie told her brother.I don't think you are alone in that regard, Tuck muttered, though no one was paying him much heed.

I am so consumed by wonder at their bravery. These people have left their families and lives behind for a few weeks to go into silent retreat amidst a crowd of perfect strangers in India. Not everybody does this in their lifetime.

Didn't want anyone to find me, not yet.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

She'd retreated inside again, the nightmares drowning her.

It was funny. He was funny. Kat wanted to laugh. She tried to will herself to do it. To dance. To be the girl she'd tried—and failed—to be at Colgan. But instead she inched away from the very kind, very funny, very handsome boy who had followed her into the dark, somehow bringing the music with him.

David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.

I don't mind long, extended trips to warm weather destinations.

Typically a weekend retreat for the heart, soul and palate, brunch is the perfect way to unwind and reconnect.

In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

I could easily escape to a hotel for a weekend and do absolutely nothing.

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.

We have a cottage on the Mendocino coast.

I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage.

I like to live in places that are kind of off in the cuts so people can't really find me even if they wanted to.