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I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance. -- Richard Leakey
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm. -- Terry Eagleton
I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life. -- Pamela Sue Martin
The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants. -- Richard Leakey
Women, who enjoyed a high social status and levels of education under Saddam, saw terrible setbacks as Iraq fell into civil war. As a result of the sectarian violence from 2005-2007, women retreated to their homes and fell from public view. -- Richard Engel
Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice. -- Don Young
There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for a gigantic natural element to just disappear. -- James Balog
The most impressive airplane ever, I believe, was designed only a dozen years after the first operational jet. Stayed in service till it was too rusty to fly, taken out of service. We retreated in '98 back to something that was developed in '56. What? The most impressive spaceship ever, I believe, was a Grumman Lunar Lander. -- Burt Rutan
You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read a book, I spoke English perfectly. No one could correct my Spanish. And I think that I retreated to books as a way, you know, to be, like, masterful in a language that was really difficult for me for many years. -- Junot Diaz
Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated. -- William Wordsworth
Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours. -- Halsey
Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat. -- Emile Zola
I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were clueless goobers. -- Dave Barry
Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind. -- Octavio Paz
Her endless, futile attempts to make her feelings known fell on stony ground. Slowly she retreated into the darkness where her dreams became reality and reality faded into the deep recesses of her soul.... -- Virginia Alison
Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldnÂ´t exist at all. -- Marya Hornbacher
In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.) -- Barbara Mertz

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