I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
“...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...” — John Geddes A Familiar Rain Copy Share Image
A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The safety of the country is at stake... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat... No faltering… — Joseph Joffre Copy Share Image
I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ... "Not this again." "Not what again?" said Clary. "Every time I annoy him,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“As we know, bears hibernate in caves. They appear almost lifeless. This is an analog to the practices of ancient shamans, and… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved. — William Wordsworth 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
Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
Being the Stream Meditation is not just a rest or retreat from the turmoil of the stream or the impurity of the… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
“Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The primitive fight-or-flight regions of our mammalian brains react to immediate danger. We instinctively run from an avalanche but the gradual retreat… — David Olusoga 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
In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. But it is… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
“There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
