Retreat famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.
-- Alan Hirsch -
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
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 -
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
-- Andre Maurois -
I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.
-- Barbara Hambly -
She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do. A life made up of advances that were actually frantic retreats and victories that were concealed defeats.
-- Bernhard Schlink -
Happy couples make it a habbit to refocus. Because it's quite normal to be distracted. So they talk. They get away for a while. They pray. They go on a marriage retreat. They take a second honeymoon or a 3rd, or 4th, or a 5th..
-- Bo Sanchez -
Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ... "Not this again." "Not what again?" said Clary. "Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.
-- Cassandra Clare -
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
-- Charles Olson -
Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind.
-- Chris Hedges -
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.
-- Christopher Lasch -
The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.
-- Don Marquis -
There’s a place inside of you where you can retreat and enjoy perfect stillness.
-- Doreen Virtue -
The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.
-- Duke of Wellington -
Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.
-- Edward Abbey -
Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
-- Emile Zola -
It is also a victory to know when to retreat.
-- Erno Paasilinna -
It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.
-- Fiorello H. La Guardia -
Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.
-- Francesco Clemente -
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.
-- Francois Hollande -
Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
-- Fridtjof Nansen -
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
-- Fridtjof Nansen -
Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.
-- George A. Sheehan -
The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.
-- George III -
One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.
-- George Orwell -
The terrorists believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent and, with a few hard blows, they can force us to retreat. They are mistaken.
-- George W. Bush -
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 -
All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles.
-- Harold E. Varmus -
Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.
-- Harry Bridges -
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
Coordinating the retreat was important too, so important that Jiaan had assigned Aram as Fasal's assistant, to be sure he didn't overlook anything important. Like the fact that they were supposed to retreat.
-- Hilari Bell -
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 -
Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.
-- Ian Hamilton Finlay -
Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.
-- Isaac Barrow -
There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later.
-- Jane Lindskold -
Don't fret, Grannie. We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her
-- Jeaniene Frost -
You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.
-- Jennifer Ehle -
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
-- Jim Bishop -
That saint who advances on his knees never retreats...
-- Jim Elliot -
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.
-- John Boehner -
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
-- Joseph McCabe -
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
-- Joseph Stalin -
When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
-- Juvenal -
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.
-- Lee H. Hamilton -
We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.
-- Leif Enger -
The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.
-- Lewis Francis Herreshoff -
I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.
-- Lionel Blue -
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold -
I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.
-- Madonna Ciccone -
When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.
-- Maria Edgeworth -
In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
-- Martin Luther -
In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by....
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.
-- Mary Matalin -
Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.
-- Mary McCarthy -
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.
-- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf -
I'm like the trunk of a cactus... I take in a dose of culture and time with friends, then I retreat and go live on it for awhile until I get thirsty again.
-- Nancy Horan -
All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because of their practical success. Where religion has opposed the findings of science, it has almost always had to retreat.
-- Nevill Francis Mott -
Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.
-- Olga Korbut -
The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.
-- Olga Korbut -
Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.
-- Oliver P. Smith -
In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls.
-- Omar Khayyam -
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.
-- Perry Como -
I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
-- Philip Kearny -
The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine as they are: Muslims, Hindus and so forth. The Church can never retreat comfortably to within the limits of her own environment. She is charged with universal solicitude; she must be concerned with and for one and all... We must... as the Lord says - go out ever anew 'to the highways and hedges' (Luke 14:23), to deliver God's invitation to his banquet also to those who have so far heard nothing or have not been stirred within.
-- Pope Benedict XVI -
The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.
-- Robertson Davies -
I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.
-- Sam Lipsyte -
When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.
-- Subhash Kak -
The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
-- Taiye Selasi -
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
-- Thomas Clarkson -
Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.
-- Ulysses S. Grant -
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 -
Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
-- William Cowper -
The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.
-- William Ernest Henley -
Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.
-- William Gurnall -
The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.
-- William Hague -
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.
-- William Lloyd Garrison -
No reserves. No retreats. No regrets.
-- William Whiting Borden -
I've decided to retreat to the spirit world where I feel appreciated and understood.
-- Dov Davidoff -
When there are conflicts of observation, when experiments cannot be replicated, scientists may then retreat to a study of the various specific observations so as to explain the conflict, in the course of which they would make use of the concept of observation, or of some specification of that concept.
-- Ernest Sosa -
A woman's noblest station is retreat.
-- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton -
One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.
-- Ignatius of Loyola -
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 -
When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat.
-- Oswald Boelcke -
Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.
-- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche -
If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.
-- Sven Birkerts -
You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.
-- John Oates
