If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
“No one can heal you. You must learn to be your own company, your own cure. You cannot retreat into someone else… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
“Once we allow our brokenness to become our norm it no longer appears broken, which is the most broken kind of brokenness.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do. — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does… — William Hazlitt 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
I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month… — Larry Rosenberg Copy Share Image
When there are conflicts of observation, when experiments cannot be replicated, scientists may then retreat to a study of the various specific… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Much has been written on the subject of self-care, and what truly counts as such; one woman's double gin and tonic is… — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold… — Patricia Moyes 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
All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
I lay and cried, and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive. I began to remember how it… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions… We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
I think we all have a hunger that's hard to name. A lot of people who come to my retreats have never… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Presumably, as a Martial artist, I do not fight for gain or loss, am not concerned with strength or weakness, and neither… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The requests often had a passive-aggressive edge: “Ten thousand dollars is probably small change to you but it would mean a huge… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Typically a weekend retreat for the heart, soul and palate, brunch is the perfect way to unwind and reconnect. — Marcela Valladolid Copy Share Image
When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your life changes so slowly and imperceptibly that you don’t notice it at all until one day you wake up and… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
The Sanctuary at Two Rivers offers a much needed escape or retreat from the fast paced, modern lifestyle we have all become… — Perrey Reeves Copy Share Image
Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after… — Douglas Alexander Copy Share Image
I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
I remember to breathe throughout the day. I remind myself that I can choose peace, no matter what is going on around… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
“but then one day Jessica went out to lunch with her and didn’t offer to pay the bill, and now they weren’t… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
