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The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.
Lee H. Hamilton
Life
Great
Problems
Our
Temptations
Give
Simply
Retreat
Private
Private Life
Domain
Up
Public
I remember, after my first postpartum depression, I didn't know what had happened to me. I was stuck in this gray depression where I just wanted to retreat and pull the covers over my head and weep. My mother and I, we went to a psychiatrist, and he just patted me on the head and told me I had baby blues, which was not helpful, obviously.
Margaret Trudeau
Depression
Me
Remember
Mother
First
Baby
Postpartum
Stuck
Weep
Had
He
Head
Over
Retreat
Know
Obviously
Covers
Just
Psychiatrist
Blues
Where
Wanted
After
Happened
Which
Helpful
Gray
Pull
I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.
Mark Burnett
Ladder
Other
Side
Indiana
Indiana Jones
Guy
Uncertainty
Chased
Take
He
Like
Retreat
Look
Him
Knows
His
Gets
Going
Behind
Being
Movie
Decisions
Cut
Rope
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
Mary McCarthy
Politics
Military
Honorable
Considerations
Seems
Shameful
Retreat
Dictated
Ethical
Reasons
Even
Suggested
Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Truth
You
Yesterday
Say
Airport
Tell
Attack
Saddam
Retreat
Always
Verify
Ask
Search
Things
When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support.
Muqtada al Sadr
Fire
Big
Positions
Too
Attacking
Advance
Support
New
Retreat
Force
Call
American
Again
Then
Harass
Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
Nancy Gibbs
Change
Challenges
Progress
Simple
About
Costs
Seldom
Casualties
Advance
Retreat
Represents
Whether
Even
Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will.
Nick Clegg
Government
Protection
Will
Liberal
State
Liberal Democrats
Our
Liberties
Citizens
Civil
Follow
Civil Liberties
Kingdom
Given
Retreat
Powers
Democrats
Labour
Labour Government
Essential
United
United Kingdom
Last
Making a new season for 'Legion' is not something you just switch into. It's not something you do between dropping the kids off in the morning and having dinner at night. That's a retreat into the woods for six weeks with some mushrooms, and trying to come back with the answers.
Noah Hawley
Morning
You
Dinner
Mushrooms
Back
Kids
Some
Something
Having
Weeks
Dropping
Between
New
Come
Retreat
Making
Answers
Off
New Season
Trying
Legion
Six
Just
Woods
Season
Switch
Night
These days when you say 'videogame', people think of immersive games that take over your life and require three thumbs to control. My goal is to create games that almost retreat into the background. I'm interested in bringing them back to their role as a social facilitator, the way party games help people to interact.
Nolan Bushnell
Life
You
People
Three
Party
Control
Think
Back
Way
Background
Say
Take
Thumbs
Almost
Over
Days
Retreat
Goal
Role
Interact
Interested
Social
Them
Create
Require
Your
Games
Help
Help People
Bringing
Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.
Paul Dini
Time
Creativity
People
Song
World
Young
Drawing
Only
Only Time
Feel
Like
Retreat
Make
Make A Difference
Comfortable
Go
Heard
Lot
Difference
Being
Place
Young People
Room
Mechanism
Garage
Play
Coping
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.
Richard Powers
Time
Silence
You
Book
Reading
Nothing
Considered
Silent
Moratorium
Voices
Outside
Head
Retreat
Hours
Still
Private
Hearing
Pathological
Human
Human Activity
Unfolding
Form
Your
Activity
Last
When I look in the mirror, I see the ageing process at full pelt, the hairline in retreat, the bags under the eyes growing and darkening, that kind of thing. I suppose it would be easier if I weren't an actor, but I am fairly philosophical about it.
Robert Webb
Eyes
Mirror
Philosophical
Easier
Kind
Would
Would-Be
See
About
Bags
Suppose
Retreat
Look
Fairly
Am
Were
Process
Ageing
Full
Growing
Actor
Thing
You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.
Russell Pearce
Government
Freedom
You
People
Bad Things
Limited Government
Defense
Bad
Moral
Retreat
Know
Because
Limited
Going
Things
Defend
All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It's easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything.
Ryan McGinley
Work
Me
People
Big
Everything
Those
All My Work
Easy
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Recreate
Had
Part
Adventures
Retreat
Because
Around
Lot
Sisters
Big Part
Them
Really
Many
Based
Watch
The federal government must retreat from its hyperactive involvement in areas traditionally under states' authority and refuse future temptations to regulate and legislate on every issue that happens to come to mind.
Scott Pruitt
Future
Government
Mind
Every
States
Must
Temptations
Area
Federal
Federal Government
Come
Retreat
Involvement
Issue
Authority
Legislate
Refuse
Happens
Regulate
We all face crossroads in our lives where we can retreat into ourselves, or we can hit the dance floor.
Sebastian Lelio
Dance
Face
Dance Floor
Our
Our Lives
Ourselves
Crossroads
Retreat
Hit
Where
Floor
Lives
I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.
Selma Lagerlof
Life
World
Thought
Become
Apprehensive
Solitary
Facing
Had
Retreat
Bustle
Shy
At times when I am myself sitting at a retreat, and at the end I get into my car to drive away, I watch my hand move forward to turn on the radio. When I can be mindful, I notice the fact that I actually don't want in that moment to listen to the news or hear some music.
Sharon Salzberg
Music
Myself
News
Car
Drive
Mindful
Some
Fact
Retreat
Am
Hear
Hand
End
Times
Get
Sitting
Listen
Move
Move Forward
Want
Turn
Turn-On
Notice
Moment
Forward
Radio
Away
Actually
Watch
You have an expansionist Islam and you have an expansionist China. Right? They are motivated. They're arrogant. They're on the march. And they think the Judeo-Christian West is on the retreat.
Steve Bannon
You
Islam
Arrogant
Think
Retreat
Motivated
West
China
March
Right
Once you thrust yourself out there in the public domain, it's really hard to retreat, to say no or reclaim that certain part of your life as private.
Theo Epstein
Life
You
Yourself
Once
Reclaim
Say
Out
Thrust
Part
Retreat
Private
Domain
Public
Public Domain
Really
Certain
Your
Hard
The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.
William Hague
Will
Advance
Over
Retreat
Begin
Now
British
I want to create a life that is just healthy and peaceful - an enclave, really, of retreat. It's not helpful for the big picture. It's totally selfish to run away like that.
Phil Elverum
Life
Selfish
Picture
Big
Healthy
Run
Totally
Like
Retreat
Big Picture
Just
Want
Create
Really
Helpful
Peaceful
Away
As I got older, my life become a whirlwind of homework and responsibilities. The hospital became my retreat, a place to gather my thoughts and focus on my health. The nurses are my friends as well as my caretakers. The doctors are my parents as well as my physicians.
Claire Wineland
Life
Health
Thoughts
Focus
My Life
Parents
Doctors
Become
Older
Homework
Caretakers
Nurses
Responsibilities
Physicians
Hospital
Retreat
Well
Became
Got
Friends
Place
Whirlwind
Gather
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