Withdrawing Quotes
Sad Quotes about Withdrawing

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
- William Gurnall

I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush
but it still makes me nervous.
Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me
and I feel myself withdrawing.
- Torrie Wilson

I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel,
within secure borders.
- Nelson Mandela

It's much easier, for example, to play a heroin addict and you're withdrawing -
you tear the ceiling off -
that's much easier than it is to come in and say,
'Hello.' Or, 'I love you'.
When you judge it in that way, the heavy isn't as difficult.
- James Stewart

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do
is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
- Carl Jung

We need to make it clear that we will withdraw from
Iraq within 6 to 9 months -
so that the Iraqis will know that they must stand up
and defend the opportunity given to them.
- John Olver

I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling
the enemy when we're going to withdraw.
- Ken Buck

If America would withdraw from South Korea,
there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.
- Kim Dae Jung

Time is the most important thing there is.
That is the only element that you can't withdraw from
the situation and still have the situation exist.
Everything depends on time.
- John Hartford

We take our international responsibilities very seriously
and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq...
Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.
- Marek Belka

When we fall asleep, we withdraw our awareness from
its hypnotic fascination with physical sensation,
thereby enabling us to listen with our now awakening sixth sense.
- Henry Reed

I will withdraw to my fortress, and after the slaughter,
I will restore order.
- Ion Antonescu

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself
is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
- Epicurus

Little said is soon amended.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
- Baltasar Gracian

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable;
foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to
withdraw from the contest.
- Steven Brust

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a
white man makes me better than a Latina woman.'
Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.
- Newt Gingrich

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole,
my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
- Lord Byron

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
- Baltasar Gracian

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet
and help the United States withdraw a bit more.
- Brent Scowcroft

We must win in Iraq.
If we withdraw, there will be chaos;
there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.
- John McCain

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office.
It shows that he was built for success that he should
have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.
- Shane Leslie

But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw,
and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur,
we're just going to have to accept them.
- William Odom

Maybe John Kerry does not know - but I am happy to explain it to him -
that my commitment to withdraw the troops goes back before the tragic,
dramatic terrorist attack.
- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory.
But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis,
because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement,
that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
- Rafik Hariri

The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans
will no longer tolerate these international scandals
and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.
- Ginny B. Waite

Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into
depression because it was the only rightful protest
I could throw in the face of a world that said it was
alright for people to come and go as they please,
that there were simply no real obligations left.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel

We can know nothing till after this grave debate.
The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour.
Now the knife must divide the flesh,
and lay the ravage bare,
and do its work completely.
- Georges Duhamel

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw,
the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart,
the day was not bad, the season has not been bad,
there is sense and even promise in going on.
- Bernard De Voto

I think my family and closest friends are learning
about my need to withdraw,
and I am learning how to restore and store my energy
to both serve the community to the best of my ability
and to serve my writer's heart.
- Sandra Cisneros

We have to withdraw from this undemocratic institution
and ensure that these people no longer have any influence on British affairs.
We would like to see other European nations do the same thing.
I think that will happen.
- Steve Blake

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors;
and laying aside corrupt superstitions,
let them acknowledge their Father and Lord,
whose excellence cannot be estimated,
nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
- Lactantius

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments,
we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands,
and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.
- David Ricardo

Man seeks to escape himself in myth,
and does so by any means at his disposal.
Drugs, alcohol, or lies.
Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself.
Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
- Jean Cocteau

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing,
I really felt the burden I am bearing.
I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.
- Kathe Kollwitz

As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving,
we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures
are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement.
- Jesse James Garrett

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics...
but instead there is a terrible resurgence.
These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.
- Dario Fo

Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec.
31, 1996.
- Akhmad Kadyrov

True dignity is never gained by place,
and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
- Philip Massinger

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world,
that's why I've withdrawn from it.
- Paul Cezanne

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the
law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets.
I think what we need is a global protest movement of
people who won't give up.
- Jose Saramago

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being
used and information and knowledge being used which were,
for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn,
shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe,
to prevent total destruction of your planet.
- David Icke

It was horrifying.
You wouldn't believe how people are treated there.
You could see that these people had withdrawn so far
that they just lived in their own minds.
They did terrible things to themselves.
- Kate Millett

If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder,
being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid.
This is an open, accessible team.
That's been my trademark for years.
- Art Modell

We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility
to take the war to the terrorists where they are.
That responsibility has waned in the last year as military
and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan
and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.
- Bob Graham

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with
facts it makes only chaos.
- Edith Hamilton

And if, happy in the lot of no created thing,
he withdraws into the center of his own unity,
his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God,
who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

The U.S.
should support the historic Gaza withdrawal as a first
step toward a final settlement:
a permanent Palestinian state in Gaza and nearly all of the West Bank.
- Lee H. Hamilton

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius
Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island,
A.D.
420,- that is, about five hundred years.
- Thomas Bulfinch

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school.
It's what you learn, what you think.
That's all that counts.
- Maya Lin

We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S.
forces - or at the very least a plan for it -
something the administration has incredulously failed
to do for over two years.
- Sherrod Brown

The U.S.
withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.
- Laurent Fabius

If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly,
obviously, that will set us back.
- Jane Harman

Our military commanders have said over and over again
that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops,
but more importantly to our enemy.
- Bill Shuster

There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes
place in a civilized manner.
We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
- Mahmoud Abbas

I got to grow up in a situation where drugs were demonic.
To watch your dad go through heroin withdrawal is something
that would keep you from doing any of that yourself.
- Shia LaBeouf

If I don't see my kids for six days,
I start to get withdrawal pains.
- Ron Silver

OK, boys; let's go make a withdrawal.
- John Dillinger

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian
nation than the withdrawal of capital.
- Jerzy Kosinski

I can take pot or leave it.
I got busted in Japan for it.
I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal,
nothing.
- Paul McCartney

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable
for the withdrawal of U.S.
troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to
make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.
- Jan Schakowsky

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress,
withdrawal, and asocial manner.
Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile
more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.
- Arthur Bremer

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for
withdrawal and yet no permanent,
unending deployment.
No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a
people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.
- Rick Renzi

At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them,
my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure
to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will
undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves
say we have built in Iraq.
- Kit Bond

We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out.
It needs to be full and complete withdrawal.
Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible
so that the elections can be free,
fair and free of outside influence.
- Stephen Hadley

But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal,
it is almost impossible for a lot of people.
I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches
in those days but grass was not difficult,
alcohol not difficult, but tobacco -
oh my god.
- Larry Hagman

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize
that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it;
that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to
the withdrawal of the preceding one.
- Andre Gide

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and
his music an immediate and eventual service by total,
resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public
world to one of private performance and electronic media.
- Milton Babbitt

And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When
on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer -
they cheer -
when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender,
what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?
- John McCain

However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer