To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema.… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I have a place in New England. It's in the middle of nowhere, like horror movie style - Stephen King-ville. It's a… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive,… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“I want my heart to be the thin place. I don't want to board a plane to feel the kiss of heaven.… — Anna White Copy Share Image
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat. — Francesca Annis Copy Share Image
And the reason is found in the first lie - the lie which you hold as the truth about God - that… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I think it's very hard to fight the war on terrorism if we're in retreat. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth.… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz… — Julia Hill Copy Share Image
