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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.
We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.
Books, I found, had the power to make time
stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Straightforward fiction functions only as more Bubble Wrap, nostalgia, retreat.
Whether we're in retreat or out in the world, we should try to develop the quality of awareness as much as possible.
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.
I see for Nature no defeat
In one tree's overthrow
Or for myself in my retreat
For yet another blow.
You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.
Typically a weekend retreat for the heart, soul and palate, brunch is the perfect way to unwind and reconnect.
One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.
When I was in retreat I just did my meditation sessions and, in-between, reading and things I had to do.
I went to a cleansing retreat in the desert where I didn't eat for eight days and experienced hunger-driven hallucinations.
Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat,
To peep at such a world; to see the stir
Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.
It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.
The most important aspect of a home is that it's a retreat, a place where you can laugh and cry.
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself
I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.
We all face crossroads in our lives where we can retreat into ourselves, or we can hit the dance floor.
Don't fret, Grannie. We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her
Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.
If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.
There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game.
Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.
Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
Can it be believed that the democracy, which has overthrown the feudal system and vanquished kings, will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.
The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.
I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.
Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go!
The safety of the country is at stake... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat... No faltering can be tolerated today.
I don't mind going out to do my shows but I can still retreat back into my own private world, you know? And that is very key.
Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.
Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.
The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.
David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.
I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
There's no cure, except the retreat into love,
For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts.
When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.
