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The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.
Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.
My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.
Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
Straightforward fiction functions only as more Bubble Wrap, nostalgia, retreat.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
There’s a place inside of you where you can retreat and enjoy perfect stillness.
Don't fret, Grannie. We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.
Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.
We have brave hearts and won't retreat. We are not going back; we are going forward.
I've decided to retreat to the spirit world where I feel appreciated and understood.
I like, very much, nature. Since I'm always together with people, I like to retreat.
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
'In Case You Didn't Know' was written in Mexico, actually, on a songwriter's retreat.
Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.
I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.
I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.
Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.
The most important aspect of a home is that it's a retreat, a place where you can laugh and cry.
The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
We all face crossroads in our lives where we can retreat into ourselves, or we can hit the dance floor.
There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.
How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!
When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.
One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.
Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.
I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.
If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.
A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.
Typically a weekend retreat for the heart, soul and palate, brunch is the perfect way to unwind and reconnect.
I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.
One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.
I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.