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
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my… — James Wolfe Copy Share Image
I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
When I wrote a long story about the retreat of sea ice, I made clear it could go the other way for… — Andrew Revkin 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
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
Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can't retreat… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“But you must decide whether you are going to pursue reality and health or to retreat into your fantasies . You have… — Talitha Day Fair 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
When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
I'll never look at you in any way but complete admiration.” He stroked her hair soothingly. “You will never be a millstone… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do.… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“For there is no retreat that is quieter or freer from trouble than a man’s own soul, especially when he has within… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The regime must allow immediate and unrestricted access to every site, every document, and every person identified by inspectors. Iraq can be… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“I want my girls to see their relationship with me as a place of refuge, a place they can retreat to for… — Hilary Flower Copy Share Image
All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
Nowhere can anyone find a # quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his or her own # soul . We need… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“She had hope in her heart but after a while, with each step forward, hope stepped back. And for the first time… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if… — Gerd von Rundstedt Copy Share Image
Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field.… — Henry Villard Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When I look in the mirror, I see the ageing process at full pelt, the hairline in retreat, the bags under the… — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
