Retreat Quotes

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

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

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.

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

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.

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will.

I've never been in a Sweat Lodge. I, myself, personally don't even like sitting in a sauna, so I've never been to a spiritual retreat so I don't understand the whole process.

It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.

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

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.

When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support.

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!

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.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

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

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

Reform is not a period of retreat.

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.