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
My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In… — James Longstreet 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
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
I grew up with an absolutely horrible, debilitating stutter, and it was what caused me to retreat into myself and caused me… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I believe we have made a decision now that will permit us to create an economic order in the world that will… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. And rightly so. The scientist addresses an… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
We know better than to think that Republicans can win only on the failures of Democrats. It still comes down to a… — Paul Ryan 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
What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship-an… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I focus for periods of time on creative work and I'm very insular during those times - not a lot of socializing.… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor;… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
“I center down - I retreat, not inside myself, but outside myself. ... Self-forgetfulness is tremendously invigorating. I wonder if we don't… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a… — Anonymous 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
When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
These days when you say 'videogame', people think of immersive games that take over your life and require three thumbs to control.… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
If someone is depressed they tend to retreat within the inner circle of their comfort zone which in the longer term, may… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Studying with a teacher doesn't simply mean going to an occasional seminar or Zen retreat. It means fully applying yourself to what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved… — Nelson Mandela 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
From here, far away, people seem very good, and that is natural, for in going away into the country we are not… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very… — Vasily Chuikov Copy Share Image
Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
As with Steinitz, Fischer's genius has often been concealed by controversies away from the board. Like Lasker, Fischer has raised chess to… — Andrew Soltis Copy Share Image
“Mark also pointed out that mindfulness was a skill—one that would improve as I got more meditation hours under my belt. In… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
