Retreat Quotes
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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 Nirvana -
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
Randall Terry
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
Ed Stoppard -
I shall never surrender or retreat.
William B. Travis -
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.
Abraham Lincoln -
My losses have taught me that I must not begin to advance until I am sure I shall not have to retreat. But if I cannot advance I do not move at all. I do not mean by this that a man should not limit his losses when he is wrong. He should. But that should not breed indecision.
Edwin Lefevre -
We pursue that which retreats from us.
Bill Vaughan -
It is also a victory to know when to retreat.
Erno Paasilinna
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To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.
Lao Tzu -
When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.
Rita Mae Brown -
Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being.
Farid al-Din Attar -
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
Hermann Hesse -
Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
Emile Zola -
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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The music business is like a big trap and that's why I never like to put both feet into it - I like to stand back and laugh at it, because if you jump into the mainstream completely then you are never going to escape. ---Songs like 'Firestarter' burst into the mainstream and bend it, twist it. Then we retreat back underground. That's the best way.
Liam Howlett The Prodigy -
Masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale -
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.
Lois McMaster -
A masterful retreat is itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
Anthony Giddens -
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
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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.
Gerard de Ridefort -
That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.
Jim Elliot -
Why, then, even when I advanced, was I so quick to retreat? Why did I always have ready a gracious smile, a happy laugh, when things went badly? Why, sooner or later, did I always find plausible excuses for those who made me suffer?
Elena Ferrante -
John F. Kennedy: Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring down an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.
Elie Abel