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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them. -- Ulysses S. Grant
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl. -- Benjamin Jowett
Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction. -- Oliver P. Smith
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. -- Oscar Wilde
Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die. -- Mary Matalin
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. -- Marcus Aurelius
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. -- Ferdinand Foch
We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves. -- Leif Enger
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. -- Roland Barthes
Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow. -- Tony Blair
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat. -- Sylvester Stallone
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. -- Aphra Behn
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. -- Norman Vincent Peale
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away. -- William Wycherley
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china. -- Charles Dickens
Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility. -- Robert Graves
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
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
But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the companionship of moon, water, hills and trees. Retreat, he reminds us, should not be confused with escape. And take these poems along for good luck! -- Robert Graves
Coming to Haramara is like coming home. My body returns to the earth, my mind mesmerized by the rhythms of the ocean and my spirit flies in this magical place. Yoga is a way of life and Haramara Retreat is where we can re-educate ourselves to live in balance. -- Rodney Yee
Masterly retreat is in itself a victory. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across. -- Sun Tzu
It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat. -- Fiorello H. La Guardia
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures. -- Robert Greene
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
I remember to breathe throughout the day. I remind myself that I can choose peace, no matter what is going on around me. Whenever I desire, I can retreat to that quiet place within simply by closing my eyes. -- Doreen Virtue
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious retreat of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom. -- Cyril Connolly
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success. -- Napoleon Hill
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology. -- Ayn Rand
From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we can walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth. -- Nhat Hanh
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. -- Joseph Stalin
Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die! -- Ngo Dinh Diem
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
The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. -- C. Wright Mills
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. -- Potter Stewart
It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat. -- Pico Iyer
Anyone who has had their heart broken learns to keep a little safety area. Even now in my relationship, I have something I can call my own in case something goes wrong. You need a place to retreat to. -- Suzi Quatro
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. -- Dave Grohl
We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome. -- Nhat Hanh
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. -- Imelda Staunton
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. -- Victoria Secunda
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. -- Richard Powers
Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I'd last with no TV, no radio, no phone. But for me that was the beginning of paying attention to all the little things. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Life doesn't retreat. -- Dan Simmons
Dont retreat. Retweet! -- Ai Weiwei
Die, but do not retreat. -- Joseph Stalin
Don't retreat. Instead - reload! -- Sarah Palin
Going forward seems like retreat ... -- Laozi
To not advance is to retreat. -- Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
I shall never surrender or retreat. -- William B. Travis
A woman's noblest station is retreat. -- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Peace comes through strength, not through retreat. -- Kevin McCarthy
A masterful retreat is itself a victory. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat. -- Tracy K. Smith
When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat. -- Subhash Kak
Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory. -- Winston Churchill
I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion. -- Ed Stoppard
To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way. -- Laozi
In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat. -- Martin Luther
It is also a victory to know when to retreat. -- Erno Paasilinna
Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility. -- Khalil Gibran
We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them. -- Tim Fargo
When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat. -- Juvenal
You have to know when to strike and when to retreat. -- John Oates
The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat. -- Duke of Wellington
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. -- Fridtjof Nansen
The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin. -- William Hague
Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap. -- Brock Clarke
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat. -- John Gay
The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself. -- Olga Korbut
Basically, I feel to spend the rest of my life doing retreat. -- Tenzin Palmo
When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat. -- Oswald Boelcke
Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face. -- Gregory Maguire
The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat. -- Don Marquis
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow. -- Charles Olson
A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space. -- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat. It is to prevail. -- George W. Bush
I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book. -- Barbara Hambly
In a retreat the lame are formost. [In a retreat the lame are foremost.] -- George Herbert
My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack. -- Ferdinand Foch
Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat. -- Sun Tzu
I've decided to retreat to the spirit world where I feel appreciated and understood. -- Dov Davidoff
Fight them everywhere. Don't give them a chance to breathe until they withdraw and retreat. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
There's no cure, except the retreat into love, For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts. -- Rumi
I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat. -- Philip Kearny
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Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under. -- Harry Bridges
If I charge, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, revenge me. -- U.S. Marine Corps
What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway. -- Idries Shah
It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat. -- Fiorello H. La Guardia
I believe, and always have, that America must engage - not retreat - in the world. -- Chuck Hagel
Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat. -- David Whyte
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure. -- Agnes Repplier
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice. -- Randall Terry
I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat. -- George III
Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat. -- Francesca Annis
Don't fret, Grannie. We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her -- Jeaniene Frost
Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat. -- S. D Gordon
The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming. -- Mason Cooley
If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new. -- Andy Stanley
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat. -- Jet Li
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. -- Jim Bishop
There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game. -- Laura Lee
Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet. -- Alfred Thayer Mahan
We should kill the future, so the present has no choice but to retreat into the past. -- Jarod Kintz
One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army. -- George Orwell
One who speaks deferentially but increases his preparations will advance. One who speaks belligerently and advances hastily will retreat. -- Sun Tzu
One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious. -- Ignatius of Loyola
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
The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper. -- Saib Tabrizi
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself -- Hermann Hesse
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat. -- Aleksandar Hemon
I see for Nature no defeat In one tree's overthrow Or for myself in my retreat For yet another blow. -- Robert Frost

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