We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of… — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In our Ashrams of East and West, places of spiritual retreat, we begin with what we call "The Morning of the Open… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over… — Bill W. Clayton Copy Share Image
Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against… — Edgar Snow Copy Share Image
It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Some of the colonizers do understand and quickly retreat, while some, because they are stupid, continue colonizing others, increasing the suffering, deaths,… — Siad Barre Copy Share Image
George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we'd go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He's the one who had I… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
'In Case You Didn't Know' was written in Mexico, actually, on a songwriter's retreat. — Brett Young Copy Share Image
I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When there is a gap between what's on the outside and what's on the inside, that's when people retreat into their foxholes… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image