Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future.
– Jim Bishop
Related Quotes:
- A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge. – Tonny K Brown
- Show them how to fly and they will shine upon the clear blue skies, show them where to fly and they will fly upon the skies – Filios Sazeides
- Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson. – Anne Bishop
- You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
- If the retreat house was a trap, it was a very nice one. – Elizabeth Hand
- My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack. – Ferdinand Foch
- The long sadness of winter was finally in retreat. – Kimberly Cuttler
- I have learned that I must push the pause ????on occasionally and retreat into that private place in my soul where it is only me and God! – Peggy Toney Horton
- That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. – Aphra Behn
- Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse
- when one’s avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go – forward. – Og Mandino
- A lion will only retreat if you stare it in the eyes; likewise, so will fear. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If I charge, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, revenge me. – US Marine Corps
- By all means, somebody will oppose it, but if only it is a noble cause pleasant to God, you have no reason to retreat! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- …I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense – but even there I can’t even control what people do… – John Geddes
- What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway. – Idries Shah
- There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later. – Jane Lindskold
- We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them. – Tim Fargo
- Pray with a pure heart and pray from where you are. He will answer your prayers. There is no need to abandon the world or retreat to a jungle – Radhe Maa
- Jesus was a hiker. The wilderness was His retreat. – Toni Sorenson
- It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures. – Robert Greene
- These are moments of love and ecstasy. Deeply moving moments when we will fly! Fly together in the azure blue sky! – Avijeet Das
- Set me free, let me be me, let me fly, fly high and away, let me breathe freedom… – Nourhan Mamdouh
- The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away. – John Frohnmayer
- It is the littlest of flowers that fly the farthest . . . That have the courage to fly the farthest. – Gina MarinelloSweeney
- Sometimes words do fly in the sky but when words do fly in the sky, there are no keyboards to type. – Rigzin Namgyal
- You can’t fly by staring at the sky. You have to take a risk to grow wings of imagination and fly. – Debasish Mridha
- The deeper your thoughts, the clearer your dreams. The clearer your dreams, the higher you fly. Decide to fly! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Masters of flight don’t learn to fly because of all that helped them, they learnt to fly, despite all that tried to stop them. – Nikki Rowe
- Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- If I had the wings of a swan, over these stony hills I would fly. I would fly to the arms of my true love, and there I’d be happy to die. – Susan Price
- The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped – Lauren Oliver
- Can’t nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. – Toni Morrison
- Moments fly and if you don’t fly with the moments, you remain on the ground apart from the moments while the moments are flying! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Fear least have power! The power of fear lies in the power of our fears. Without the power of our fears, fear is least empowered! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy. – Thomas S Monson
- Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless. – Ellen Hopkins
- Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. – Jean Rhys
- I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them. – Hugo Chvez
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter