76 Retreat Quotes for You to Enjoy

I take things that are worn out through overuse, that have become cliches - like the shed, a traditional place of rest and retreat - and I give them a more incandescent future. Cornelia Parker

Future Rest Become Worn Out Give More Through Take Like Retreat Shed Cliches Traditional Place Them Things

We have brave hearts and won't retreat. We are not going back; we are going forward. Cyril Ramaphosa

Back Retreat Hearts Brave Going Forward

I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace. Damian Lewis

Education You Age People School First Community Living Furnace Out Kind One Thing About Lifelong Come Retreat Talk Friendships Forged Eight Boarding Boarding School Little Then Teaches Prep Why Thing

In 1995, I had been chosen to make a short presentation about the state of the TV business at a company retreat in Santa Barbara. At the time, I felt we were not real competitors in network television. The studio wasn't prolific; we didn't have much of a brand. Dana Walden

Time Business State Prolific Television TV About Network Network Television Had Studio Retreat Make Felt Real Were Been Brand Short Barbara Much Santa Company Chosen Presentation Competitors

Reform is not a period of retreat. David Remnick

Retreat Period Reform

Straightforward fiction functions only as more Bubble Wrap, nostalgia, retreat. David Shields

Wrap More Only Bubble Retreat Fiction Nostalgia Straightforward Functions

Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after years of fighting to defend Europe against attacks from the Eurosceptic right, it would be fatal to retreat into the same arguments and begin the battle anew. Douglas Alexander

Battle Argument Fighting Too Would Would-Be Anew Cost Seemed Attacks Part Idea Like Retreat Years Begin Same Often Being After Against Less Europe Right Fatal Britain Defend

Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can. Eliezer Yudkowsky

Truth You Surrender Fight Feeling Own Evidence Though About Winds Direction Only Foot Cheated Leaf Beware Retreat Forced Quickly Blow Against Your Ground Lest Each

Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I'd last with no TV, no radio, no phone. But for me that was the beginning of paying attention to all the little things. Ellen DeGeneres

Spiritual Me Little Things Phone Mind Long Subconscious Before Beginning Changing All My Friends Out TV Bets Never Taking Attention Come Like Retreat How Dialogue Subconscious Mind Were Been Friends Anything Decided Little Your Paying Radio Right Things Inner Last

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. Ferdinand Foch

Giving Situation Way Shall Attack Excellent Retreat Center Right

It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else. Gerd von Rundstedt

You Madness Will First Else Destroyed Find Someone Troops Attempt Retreat First Place Repeat Order Hold Cannot Place Second Second Place

On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the rubble, many in the deep cellars left from Roman times. They had been hiding there after the retreat from France. Heinrich Boll

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy. Henry Villard

Enemy Thought Men Field Several Abandon Possible General Retreat Became Without Left Yielded Officers Any Controlled Getting Impulse As Far As Formal Orders Far Organizations

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you. Imelda Staunton

The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country. James Wolfe

Life Me Men Long Country Situation Believe Resolved Would No Difference General Could He Bought Retreat Most Cheerfully Devoted Makes His Impossibility Blood Friends Die Difference Which Your Conquer Conquest Resign

Twice a year, I take myself off to a self-imposed 'writer's retreat', staying at a small inn or on a friend's farm, where I am all alone and do nothing other than write. Jane Green

Alone Myself Year Nothing Farm Other Staying Small Write Writer Take Retreat Am Off Friend Than Where Twice Inn

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat. John Oates

You Strike Retreat Know

I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it? Kate Atkinson

Death Ego Better Believe Think Tree Back Kind About Buddhism Feel Come Retreat Know Because Exist Lot Than Suspect Going Just Want Form Happen Mean Really Should Zen Thing

Honestly, I think I was in kindergarten. I remember seeing a play and realizing that was what I wanted to do. I remember always wanting to retreat to my room or somewhere private to play pretend by myself. Kathryn Hahn

Myself Remember Somewhere Think Honestly Pretend Kindergarten Seeing Retreat Always Private Wanted Wanting Room Realizing Play

Peace comes through strength, not through retreat. Kevin McCarthy

Strength Peace Through Retreat

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