Retreat Quotes

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

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.

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.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.

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

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.

I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

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

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

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.

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.

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

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

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.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

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

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

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

I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.

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

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

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