Top 32 Retract Quotes
#1. In politics ... never retreat, never retract ... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#2. It is dangerous not to conform with people's image of us, because they do not readily retract their opinions.
Jean Cocteau
#3. If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro
Bruce Fogle
#4. I think I've always been aware of it with my music. I think growing up basically and having a lot to deal with and just slowing down and having something to say and something to retract from, I think I just knew that what I was doing was extremely honest.
Justin Vernon
#5. It was always too late to retract, to try and retrieve what one had done.
Margaret Irwin
#6. We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.
Jamie Foxx
#7. Think of the moment you count
most foul in your life;
conjure it,
supplicate,
pray to it;
your face is bleak, you retract,
you dare not remember it.
Hilda Doolittle
#8. As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.
Samuel Johnson
#9. People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?
Dada Bhagwan
#10. People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.
Michael Palin
#11. At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
Janis Joplin
#12. The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
Ze Frank
#14. The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay still, but retract.
Philippa Perry
#15. Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.
Tom Lehrer
#16. Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
Joseph Joubert
#17. The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence
can never retract.
by this, and only this, we have existed.
T. S. Eliot
#18. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer valid? In modern times a thought can be refuted, yes, but not retracted. (p. 179)
Milan Kundera
#19. Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Nellie L. McClung
#21. Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne,
Poets who wrote great poems, one by one,
And spaced by many years, each line an act
Through which few labor, which no men retract.
This passion is the scholar's heritage
Yvor Winters
#22. With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory.
Glenn Reynolds
#23. I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.
Mary Hart
#24. No one said a word; it was as if they were waiting for me to retract my question. Jan's hand found mine and held it.
"What the hell is this? A wake?" My grandpa came out of the house carrying a tray of buns.
Bentley Little
#25. see, now, that it was wrong for me to curse your particular blood to a diseased eternity of suffering. In an attempt at magnanimity I extend an apology and retract my sanguinary execration.
Joseph Fink
#26. The Gods hate hubris in a man almost more than any trait. Remember the boastful words of Odysseus to Poseidon after the fall of Troy? He paid for it with ten years of his life, and the lives of all his men. Retract your boast before something bad happens!
Gary Corby
#27. In a political campaign, you can never ever retract anything or admit a mistake."
"Obviously, John subscribes to the Napoleon school of politics," Sophie says. "And look where he ended up...
Maria Malonzo
#28. I have nothing to regret, to retract or take back ... I can only say; God Save Ireland!
Edward Condon
#29. What have we given?
My friend, blood shaking my heart
The awful daring of a moment's surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract
By this, and this only, we have existed.
T. S. Eliot
#30. Roger Daltrey had been expelled for smoking, but was still impudently showing up on campus to visit his various cronies. I'd first met him after he won a playground fight with a Chinese boy. I thought his tactics were dirty and when I shouted as much, he came over & forced me to retract.
Pete Townshend
#31. Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.
Nellie L. McClung
#32. I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of - we did retract this specific matter about the Koran and the toilet for the reasons that you just cited.
Michael Isikoff
