
Top 22 Military Retreat Quotes
#1. Georgia became the latest state to join that list when Gov. Nathan Deal signed an executive order Monday. It described the new policy as a matter of fairness and a way to strengthen the state's economy by expanding the pool of workers.
Anonymous
#2. Everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right
his goal sanctifies all.
George Sand
#3. British General Andrew Skeen, who faced a similar military mission in 1939, wrote, "When planning a military expedition into Pashtun tribal areas, the first thing you must plan is your retreat. All expeditions into this area sooner or later end in retreat under fire.
Eric Blehm
#4. Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.
Oliver P. Smith
#5. Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
#6. 1 Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!
Anonymous
#7. With daylight (it was exactly a week since he last dressed for the office) he found himself passing through farmland over which a light snow had fallen ahead of him, softening, smoothing some of the rudeness, but not enough to hide the truth that nothing was planted.
Douglas Woolf
#8. If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
Grandma Moses
#10. Remember when you told your sister how scared you were of monsters under your bed? Hah. Hah! She scared you good when she hid under there and jumped out when you got up to go pee after the lights were turned off that night!
L.R.W. Lee
#11. If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#13. Caleb shoved back from the table and stood to retreat to the kitchen. "No. Find another plan."
"There is no other plan. This isn't even a plan, merely a nugget of an idea for the start of a plan that's certain to fail and end in your deaths.
G.S. Jennsen
#14. In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
Mary McCarthy
#17. -We've been dating for three years!He's my boyfriend!
-You have stronger feelings for Baz and Simon!
-Duh, they're Baz and Simon, like that's even fair ...
Rainbow Rowell
#18. To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.
Christian Louboutin
#19. The discussion itself is what most matters, the fact that we can reason together easily, with a blend of wit and seriousness, never descending into gossip or slander and always allowing room for alternative views.
Stephen Greenblatt
#20. Fight them everywhere. Don't give them a chance to breathe until they withdraw and retreat.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#21. My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.
Ferdinand Foch
#22. I don't have pressure on me. I just put pressure on myself to play hard every day.
Hanley Ramirez
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