Retreat Quotes

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

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.

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will.

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you.

We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.

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.

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 I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.

I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat.

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.