Retreat Quotes

I think a lot of Hollywood is in retreat right now trying to figure out how to make money and make the safest bets.

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.

The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

A masterful retreat is itself a victory.

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

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

If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away.

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.

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

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.

I want to retreat back to living off the land and just being in nature, experiencing life in the most pure, natural way possible.

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.

But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove; Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?

I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not.

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.

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

Going forward seems like retreat.

We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.

The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.

There's no cure, except the retreat into love, For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts.

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.

Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat.

as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.

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.

MC's they retreat cause they know I can beat 'em, And eat 'em in a battle and the ref won't cheat 'em. I'm the best takin' out all rookies, So forget Oreos...eat Cool J cookies.

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.

Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.

You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things.

It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists.

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

Dont retreat. Retweet!

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.

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

Can it be believed that the democracy, which has overthrown the feudal system and vanquished kings, will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?

If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.

So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.

I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted.

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

[N]o American should retreat an inch on the right of jurors to acquit if they perceive the law or its administration to be unjust.

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.