#retreat

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away. ↗

— William Wycherley

#constantly #country #dwell #like #little

Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice. ↗

— Don Young

#arctic #community #covered #farming #found

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#because #continue #doing #fighters #having

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#forces #iraqi #iraqi forces #mother #retreats

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#anarchy #borders #distance #ethiopia #military

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#another #direction #retreating

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#any #comes #company #continental #corporation

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#purchased #retreats #strength #unilateral #weakness

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

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

Reform is not a period of retreat. ↗

— David Remnick

#reform #retreat