Retreat Quotes

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Take possession of the air, submit the elements, penetrate the last redoubts of nature, make space retreat, make death retreat.

Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat.

Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.

To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy.

The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.

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

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

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

He who retreats lives longer.

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.

How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

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.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat. It is to prevail.

A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.

Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

There’s a place inside of you where you can retreat and enjoy perfect stillness.

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.

Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

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.

This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears, Built as it has been in our waning years, A rest afforded to our weary feet, Preliminary to - the last retreat.

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.

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.

I think all writers have a bit of genius in them, and a bit of talent. Genius retreats but talent improves.

Pray with a pure heart and pray from where you are. God will answer your prayers. There is no need to abandon the world or retreat to a jungle.

Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.

The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and my dog, I don't talk to anybody, and I just write.

As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit.

These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.But they have failed; our country is strong.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.

It is also a victory to know when to retreat.

The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

A masterful retreat is itself a victory.

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.