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The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats. -- Dick Cheney
I still go to a Christian priory for retreats. -- Lionel Blue
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice. -- Thomas Clarkson
My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats. -- Sharon Salzberg
Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips. -- Taiye Selasi
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. -- Joseph McCabe
I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit. -- Lisa Whelchel
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. -- Sun Tzu
I have hundreds of poems memorized. Mostly by others, but also my own. I use the poems when I lead retreats for management groups on topics like creating teams, or coming up with a more entrepreneurial system, or creating more excitement. -- David Whyte
I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film. -- Michael Haneke
The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons. -- Carl Honore
I think I first got into acting through church. I would go to these church retreats, and they would tell us to make a skit or make a video and present it to the rest of the group. And I started doing that. And I fell in love with it. -- Ki Hong Lee
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. -- William Ernest Henley
Part of me wanted to disappear into a cave in India, and I did end up going on retreats there, but, don't ask me why, I always felt very strongly that the point for me was to find a way to live a truly spiritual life in the modern day world and be able to work with all the positive aspects of our cultural and technological advancements. -- Linus Roache
He who retreats lives longer. -- Michael Scott
No reserves. No retreats. No regrets. -- William Whiting Borden
We pursue that which retreats from us. -- Bill Vaughan
That saint who advances on his knees never retreats... -- Jim Elliot
Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks. -- Ian Hamilton Finlay
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it. -- Robertson Davies
Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die. -- Frank Herbert
The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats. -- Stonewall Jackson
Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe. -- Drew Myron
How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats! -- John Burroughs
When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue. -- Mao Zedong
The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue -- Mao Zedong
Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor. -- Christopher Hart
I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves. -- Martin Amis
I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days. -- Madonna Ciccone
Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity. -- Mary McCarthy
Fiction; inner thoughts of Elisha True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved. -- William Wordsworth
Every morning, after a few sips of coffee and a bit of small talk, each of us retreats with our books, and travels centuries away from this place. -- Yxta Maya Murray
In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls. -- Omar Khayyam
In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls." -- Omar Khayyam
Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured plant retreats before it. -- Beryl Markham
how he had loved Christine more than he had understood, that sometimes one forgot what it meant, really, to love, the way the tide of a marriage advances and retreats, . . -- Kalotay
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. -- Maria Edgeworth
He who advances without seeking fame,Who retreats without escaping blame,He whose one aim is to protect his people and serve his lord,The man is a jewel of the Realm -- Sun Tzu
Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name. -- Dean Koontz
I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit." -- Lisa Whelchel
We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading. -- Bill Gates
Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation dedicated, however much it falls short, to a universalist ideal of freedom. -- Roger Cohen
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. -- Cassandra Clare
Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree . . . when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself. -- Marcus Aurelius
Monopathy, or over-specialisation, eventually retreats into defending what one has learnt rather than making new connections. The initial spurt of learning gives out, and the expert is left, like an animal, merely defending his territory. -- Robert Twigger

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