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It is also a victory to know when to retreat. — Erno Paasilinna

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap. — Brock Clarke

We pursue that which retreats from us. — Bill Vaughan

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat. — Martin Luther

It is better to go forward without an aim than loiter without an aim, and with surety much better than to retreat without an aim. — Andrzej Sapkowski

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl. — Benjamin Jowett

After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person. — Kate Bush

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

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

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. — Sun Tzu

and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one — Napoleon Hill

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat. — Emile Zola

We all retreat into ourselves in some way. — Dan Simmons

Love scrubs the worst stains clean. Anyway, there can be no retreat in the face of evil, only resistance. And commitment. — Dean Koontz

I told her that I'd done things in my youth that had placed me beyond the comfort and shelter of love, and so i had conducted my life in retreat. — Graham Joyce

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

Non-engagement or retreat can turn certain defeat into victory. — Bryant McGill

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

The points are not the point; the point is poetry. — Allan Wolf

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wife? Are you sure you're ready to not call retreat? Right now?
I'm butterflying positive. — Colleen Hoover

Prayer will never descend to the level where it is nothing more than a retreat house in which we find strength for ourselves, — D. A. Carson

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep! — Benito Mussolini

The Band advances to the cadence of the flute, and has no call for retreat. Its code is Stand and Die. — Steven Pressfield

[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. — Charley Reese

I see for Nature no defeat
In one tree's overthrow
Or for myself in my retreat
For yet another blow. — Robert Frost

But I stood my ground, head-crackin' mamma jamma that I was, no retreat. — Kristen Ashley

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray. — William Hazlitt

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

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

There are awkward moments from which one can retreat, and awkward moments from which there is no escape. — Alexander McCall Smith

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face. — Gregory Maguire

My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy. — Burt Shavitz

Luck comes when you bend to the requirements of reality. — Darrell Calkins

Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them. — Ulysses S. Grant

No retreat, no way around, one has to take their fight to the end. — Trygve Gulbranssen

Running is just such a monestary
a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal. — George Sheehan

There is no shame in strategic retreat if it lets you remain strong enough to go after the enemy later. — Jane Lindskold

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. — Alan Hirsch

The safety of the country is at stake ... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat ... No faltering can be tolerated today. — Joseph Joffre

The host thus forming a single united body, is it impossible either for the brave to advance alone, or for the cowardly to retreat alone — Sun Tzu

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

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

Stomach-sleepers like me were in retreat from reality, given to dark perception and the meditative arts. This — Jeffrey Eugenides

I believe, and always have, that America must engage - not retreat - in the world. — Chuck Hagel

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

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat. — Duke Of Wellington

I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they want to be more in retreat. — Francois Hollande

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

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

Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. — Patrick Rothfuss

Is your home a retreat from responsibility, or a place of movement and growth? — Henry Cloud

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. — Ferdinand Foch

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all. — Daniel Day-Lewis

Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself. — Hermann Hesse

Married! Not to retreat, but to be the mistress of a lord's domain; not to be safe in a convent, but to live as some lord's breeding sow. — Katherine Arden

I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat. — Dana Stabenow

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

Sometimes advance is the best form of retreat. — Mark Lawrence

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them. — Tim Fargo

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. — Charles Dickens

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

Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists? — Alexis De Tocqueville

I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days. — Madonna Ciccone

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

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

If I'm upset, hold me and tell me how beautiful I am.
If I growl, retreat to a safe distance and throw chocolate.
- BEST. ADVICE. EVER. — Darynda Jones