11 Withdrew Quotes for You to Enjoy

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 wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. Saint Augustine

Thoughts Experience Vision Light Mind Out Find Attained Glance Thus Withdrew Itself Contradictory Flash Wherein Which Might Images

It should tell you something that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency invented the Taliban in the early 1990s only because Hekmatyar, its primary U.S.-bankrolled proxy in the war for control of Afghanistan, had proved too bloodthirsty after the Soviets withdrew, even by the low standards of the ISI's ghastly generals in Rawalpindi. Terry Glavin

War You Intelligence Control Too Ghastly Tell Something Invented Only Generals Had Primary Taliban Withdrew Because Proved Soviets Afghanistan After Low Agency Should Standards Even Pakistan Early Early 1990s

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 would like to emphasize strongly that Russia withdrew all of its troops, we moved the prosecutors, we moved all the police, dismantled all the courts, completely, 100 percent. Vladimir Putin

Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia. Loretta Napoleoni

People Own Enslaved See Colonies Countrymen Powers Withdrew Foreign Were Foreign Powers Africa Asia Actually Slavery

I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me. Laurence Yep

Teacher Me Age Writing School National Seventeen Later Bit High Threat Magazine High School Something Had Withdrew Bug Because Accepted Said Get Who Started

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 familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it. Bruno Heller

Positive Life Family My Life Realistic Kind TV One Thing About Had Withdrew Cheers Familiar Times Being The One Thing Hard Hard Times Thing

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater. Les Aspin

Before More Withdrew Forces Iraqi Done Theater Should Damage

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 up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew. Ruth Park

Morning Sky Back Out Hot Come Like Tide Withdrew Revelations Still Up Quietly Did Roll Scroll Sea Event Spectacular