Withdrew Quotes
36 quotes by 35 authors
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was…
— Saint Augustine
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I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.
— Tyra Banks
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Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating with her learning…
— Nichelle Nichols
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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life…
— Jacques Derrida
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This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my knees I felt…
— David Brainerd
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We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.
— Les Aspin
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You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of…
— Warren Farrell
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As disciples of Christ, we need to feel genuine charity for one another. As we do, new light will come into our own lives. This…
— M. Russell Ballard
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Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite.…
— Richard Bach
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During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability to…
— Melvin Laird
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When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him…
— Jon Krakauer
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...All patients reported a loss of craving for drugs while taking large doses of Vitamin C, during detoxification. Of the first 30 carefully monitored heroin…
— Irwin Stone
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I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was…
— Bruno Heller
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In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll…
— Ruth Park
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A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it didn't recognize Chechnya as an independent state. And I…
— Vladimir Putin
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Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
— Carter G. Woodson
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But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.
— Virginia Woolf
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Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my…
— Flann O'Brien
Who Wrote These Withdrew Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 36 Withdrew Quotes, led by these top contributors: