“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." [ The Minotaur ]” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“To retreat is to walk alone. To explore is to walk with generations, dead and alive, in an act of love.” — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
“Abandon your fear, move forward and never stop. Retreat and you will age. Hesitate and you will die.” — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
There's no cure, except the retreat into love, For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it. — Anthony Giddens 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
“What I’ve deemed as impossible is more the fiction I’ve created to avoid the failure I fear.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Once you thrust yourself out there in the public domain, it's really hard to retreat, to say no or reclaim that certain… — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people,… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I've decided to retreat to the spirit world where I feel appreciated and understood. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world ,… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“He thought walking away was a good thing to do. A mature, manly thing to do. To disengage and give her time… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves. — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The terrorists believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent and, with a few hard blows, they can force us to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat. — Philip Kearny Copy Share Image
If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“Our roads are most often a tawdry detour we have chosen because the press of pain or the push of greed drove… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I would like a countrywide retreat but am not sure whether I'll get a countrywide retreat in the future but I'll manifest… — Maisie Peters 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
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