#retreat

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I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.


Francois Hollande


#decide #engaged #europe #fully #i

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.


Francesca Annis


#fired #get #i #just #retreat

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.


Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf


#always #ask #attack #i #i always

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.


Dick Cheney


#forces #iraqi #iraqi forces #mother #retreats

You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.


Jennifer Ehle


#any #come #comes #crest #else

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.


Margaret Mahy


#certainly #characters #everyday #everyday life #life

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.


Norman Mailer


#bit #dying #every #existence #growing

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

You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.


Russell Pearce


#because #defend #defense #freedom #going

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