Quotes and Sayings About Retreat
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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
