Retreat Quotes - Page 4

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.

Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ... "Not this again." "Not what again?" said Clary. "Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.

So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an area usable either for recreation, science or for wildlife, but the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible. It follows, then, that any wilderness program is a rearguard action, through which retreats are reduced to a minimum.

The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.

The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.

Basically, I feel to spend the rest of my life doing retreat.

The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.

If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.

Don't retreat. Instead - reload!

I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.

If someone is depressed they tend to retreat within the inner circle of their comfort zone which in the longer term, may contribute to exacerbating a problem rather than soothing it and if not seeking to expand the comfort zone becomes the norm.

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

We have a very large constituency in the world from all of the years that we've done workshops, retreats, and talks. I would say there a few thousand people out there that have some relationship to what we do.

The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.