Top 100 Quotes About Retreat
#1. When a woman tells you to 'Go ahead,' you do not, under any circumstances go ahead. You retreat to a safe distance and observe the situation very carefully. She is daring you to do something, not giving you permission.
L.A. Casey
#2. John F. Kennedy:] Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring down an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.
Elie Abel
#3. here's the thing: However attractive the idea of a writer's retreat may sound, having all day to poke around on a novel actually hampers productivity.
Chris Baty
#4. The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements ... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.
Vasily Chuikov
#5. When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support.
Muqtada Al Sadr
#6. If I charge, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, revenge me.
U.S. Marine Corps
#7. Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
Randall Terry
#8. Standing safely on the opposite bank with her dry maid, her dry escort, and a company of streaming horsemen, Philippa said scathingly, 'That's men for you. Cover the lady's retreat, the book says. A hundred years ago, maybe. And what stopped you from coming with me just now? I can swim, you know.
Dorothy Dunnett
#9. The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.
Julian Jaynes
#10. Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
#11. I believe, and always have, that America must engage - not retreat - in the world.
Chuck Hagel
#12. A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.
Cyril Connolly
#13. Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.
Ulysses S. Grant
#14. Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
Sun Tzu
#15. Non-engagement or retreat can turn certain defeat into victory.
Bryant McGill
#16. These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.
A.E. Housman
#18. I had gotten to the point where I just didn't want to perform anymore - I didn't want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.
Guillermo Del Toro
#19. I remember to breathe throughout the day. I remind myself that I can choose peace, no matter what is going on around me. Whenever I desire, I can retreat to that quiet place within simply by closing my eyes.
Doreen Virtue
#20. I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#21. One who speaks deferentially but increases his preparations will advance. One who speaks belligerently and advances hastily will retreat.
Sun Tzu
#22. If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the shame and reproach will be very great.
Gerard De Ridefort
#23. As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit.
T. H. Watkins
#24. If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!
Benito Mussolini
#25. His eyes were dark, dangerous, and not at all cold. He burned with an internal inferno she wanted to touch. She stared into the gaze of a tiger and knew, even as she watched the cat retreat into the camouflage of a gentleman: The Duke of Wakefield was the Ghost of St. Giles.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#26. The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.
James Wolfe
#27. They have seen Death and ultimate defeat,
and yet they would not in despair retreat,
but oft to victory have tuned the lyre
and kindled hearts with legendary fire,
illuminating Now and dark Hath-been
with light of suns as yet by no man seen.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#28. Let me first assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
William Manchester
#29. 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
#30. To the desert go prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.
Jon Krakauer
#31. Your comfort zone may be more like a cage you can't escape from than a safe place you can retreat to.
Chris Guillebeau
#32. Within you is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. - Hermann Hesse
Steve Martin
#33. I stop and look back
All I see is black
I push the dark aside
And there you are
Holding my hand
Catching me when I stumble
Oh how do I get the dark to retreat?
And find my way back to you?
And who I was before
D.E. Haggerty
#34. Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.
Henry David Thoreau
#36. A retreat will teach you again and again that you are neither indispensable nor self-sufficient.
Karen Lord
#37. It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray and the bullet would never miss.
Ian Fleming
#38. More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.
Rebecca Solnit
#39. Live. If you live, God will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation. Everyone knows this, but no one takes the first step, perhaps for fear of being called insane.
Paulo Coelho
#41. He tried to get drunk, "to forget about life for awhile," as that old
Billy Joel song once said, but the scotch couldn't anesthetize his pain
and provide a retreat from the reality of his latest failures.
Keith Steinbaum
#43. I've lost a lot of battles, but I've never lost sight of the war. My goal is to fight my way to a day when we're old and gray and she looks at me and says 'I'm glad you never gave up.' Until then, I fight. No retreat, baby. No surrender.
Hank Moody
#44. I am so consumed by wonder at their bravery. These people have left their families and lives behind for a few weeks to go into silent retreat amidst a crowd of perfect strangers in India. Not everybody does this in their lifetime.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#45. Once he said to her: 'You are like me; you are different from other people. You are Kamala and no one else, and within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat any time and be yourself, just as I can. Few people have that capacity and yet everyone could have it.
Hermann Hesse
#46. Anyone who has had their heart broken learns to keep a little safety area. Even now in my relationship, I have something I can call my own in case something goes wrong. You need a place to retreat to.
Suzi Quatro
#47. At times when I am myself sitting at a retreat, and at the end I get into my car to drive away, I watch my hand move forward to turn on the radio. When I can be mindful, I notice the fact that I actually don't want in that moment to listen to the news or hear some music.
Sharon Salzberg
#48. In a state of self-pity, one may retreat from the world in which one has been blessed to live.
Amor Towles
#49. Enjoy Colleen Hoover's first two New York Times bestselling books, Slammed and Point of Retreat, and become
Colleen Hoover
#50. The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue
Mao Zedong
#51. We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
Nhat Hanh
#52. It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.
Gerd Von Rundstedt
#53. If you're going to look at me that way, I might need to warn you about me," he says, taking a step toward me. Instinctively, I retreat. One side of his mouth quirks into a wry grin. "Or maybe you already know.
M. Leighton
#54. Sometimes it takes more courage to know when to retreat than to keep fighting.
Richelle Mead
#55. Politicians need religion even more than a hermit in retreat. If the hermit acts inspired by bad motivation, he'll harm only himself. But if a politician, who can directly influence an entire society, acts with bad motivation, a large number of people will experience the negative consequences.
Dalai Lama XIV
#56. It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.
Pico Iyer
#57. When we retreat to the country, we are hiding not from people, but from our pride, which, in the city and among people, operates unfairly and immoderately.
Anton Chekhov
#58. Ashe was typical of that stratum of mankind which conducts its human relationships according to a principle of challenge and response. Where there was softness, he would advance; where he found resistance, retreat.
John Le Carre
#59. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve.
Jodi Picoult
#60. If the retreat house was a trap, it was a very nice one.
Elizabeth Hand
#61. As the Strategist had said, if you want your enemy to fight to the death, cut off all escape; if you want your enemy to retreat, leave a path open.
Brent Weeks
#62. The American administration is trying to achieve any gain in the shadow of the embarrassment hitting it because of its failures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine after the failure of Israel's war on Lebanon and the retreat of America's project in the region.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#63. It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.
Fiorello LaGuardia
#64. How about we never talk about what happened and why I feel the way I feel. We just pretend that everything is fine and I just scrub myself red every night, allowing my mind and body to retreat into oblivion. Yup sounds like the perfect plan.
Astrid Lee Miles
#65. Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
Napoleon Hill
#66. Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.
Gregory Maguire
#67. Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself ... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.
Donald Woods Winnicott
#68. It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.
George Eliot
#69. The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain power by going out into the world, but the scientist really wants to obtain power by retreating from the world.
Max Delbruck
#70. Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
Charles Lamb
#71. No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
John Gay
#72. Anger, stress, tension, depression, sorrow, hate, fear - these things start to retreat. And for a filmmaker, having this negativity lift away is money in the bank. When you're suffering you can't create.
David Lynch
#73. We had that first Marvel NOW! retreat where everybody came in and pitched their new books, which was probably the most exciting retreat I've ever been to because it was all brand new.
Jason Aaron
#74. They passed the point where they'd made their previous retreat, but this time felt no urgency or fear. For some reason the dubious energy field was gone.
Marcha A. Fox
#75. That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
Aphra Behn
#76. There are awkward moments from which one can retreat, and awkward moments from which there is no escape.
Alexander McCall Smith
#77. Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.
Romain Rolland
#78. My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy.
Burt Shavitz
#79. You move forward. You face up to your challenges. You don't retreat. You're young, and sometimes you'll wish you could. But don't.
Ellyn Bache
#80. Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument.
Aleksandar Hemon
#81. I've never been in a Sweat Lodge. I, myself, personally don't even like sitting in a sauna, so I've never been to a spiritual retreat so I don't understand the whole process.
Hulk Hogan
#82. My home ... It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
Michel De Montaigne
#84. Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
Seneca The Younger
#85. We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.
Andrzej Wajda
#86. The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and my dog, I don't talk to anybody, and I just write.
Isabel Allende
#87. The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases.
Alexander Alekhine
#88. Fame - fame was the anti-death. But it seemed to slither from his grasp, seemed to giggle and retreat, seemed to hide behind a huge oak tree and make farting sounds with its hands.
Keith Gessen
#89. I have learned that I must push the pause button occasionally and retreat into that private place in my soul where it is only me and God!
Peggy Toney Horton
#90. In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
Martin Luther
#91. The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
#92. Coming to Haramara is like coming home. My body returns to the earth, my mind mesmerized by the rhythms of the ocean and my spirit flies in this magical place. Yoga is a way of life and Haramara Retreat is where we can re-educate ourselves to live in balance.
Rodney Yee
#93. How do you tell one You've spoken with God? / Would you believe someone / Who said that they saw / Plans for a boat / To hold all the beasts / And you and your kids From a flood to retreat?
Brian M. Boyce
#94. We listen to the inexhaustible chant of the sea within us, as it rises and falls in our heads, like the approach and retreat of the strange desire we have for heaven, for love, and all that we cannot touch with our hands.
Jean-Michel Maulpoix
#95. Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#96. Retreat"
"I can't explain why I did these things, except to say that I carry a little imp inside me whose ambrosia is my brother's wrath.
Wells Tower
#97. I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#98. I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#99. This speedy retreat left Georges-Picot under the impression that 'What the British want, is only to deceive the Arabs.
James Barr
#100. I understood why Giovanni had wanted me and had brought me to his last retreat. I was to destroy this room and give to Giovanni a new and better life. This life could only be my own, which, in order to transform Giovanni's, must first become a part of Giovanni's room.
James Baldwin
