I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book. — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks. — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
“Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.” — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat. — Francesca Annis Copy Share Image
“Running is just such a monestary-- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Retreat" "I can't explain why I did these things, except to say that I carry a little imp inside me whose ambrosia… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest… — Farid al-Din Attar Copy Share Image
Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You’ll meet someone else. You don’t need a man to complete you. Your body does not define you. You need to fall… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet. — Alfred Thayer Mahan Copy Share Image
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.But they have failed; our country is strong. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We have a very large constituency in the world from all of the years that we've done workshops, retreats, and talks. I… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over.… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to… — Janet Evanovich 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 always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“But I had deliberately acquired the habit of closing my eyes even to such obvious assumptions, just as though I did not… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
How does life become totally painful By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.But existence is basically composed of a very few… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
If when you say 'whiskey' you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason... then… — Noah S. Sweat Copy Share Image
“Go back into your yesterdays, at times, and bathe your mind in the beautiful memories of past love. It will soften the… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
