Withdraw

Famous quotes containing the word withdraw:

“To withdraw myself from myself ... has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“If thou be invited of a mighty man, withdraw thyself, and so much the more will he invite thee. Press thou not upon him, lest thou be put back; stand not far off, lest thou be forgotten.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 13:9-10.

“A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw when commonplace doubts and cares assail us.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)