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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

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

As the Strategist had said, if you want your enemy to fight to the death, cut off all escape; if you want your enemy to retreat, leave a path open. — Brent Weeks

The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation. — Padgett Powell

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

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

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. — Alexander Alekhine

Free supplies and open retreat are two essentials to the safety of an army or a fleet. — Alfred Thayer Mahan

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 Bujold

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

To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way. — Laozi

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

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 thing about an Alpha, male or female, is that they can lead. When things get desperate they attack instead of retreat. — Kristen Chandler

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

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

If you sustain your balance and intention, everything, including things unimaginable, arrive at the appropriate time and place. — Darrell Calkins

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

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

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

David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile. — Douglas Alexander

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

Rather than act like the lord of the manor,
I would rather behave like a guest.
Rather than advance an inch,
I would rather retreat a foot. — Lao-Tzu

The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat. — Don Marquis

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

She needed care and time; enough space not to feel threatened, but not so much that she could retreat. — Tami Hoag

The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

In a retreat the lame are formost.
[In a retreat the lame are foremost.] — George Herbert

The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph ... we must not retreat. — George III

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming. — Mason Cooley

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

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

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

Jesus was a hiker. The wilderness was His retreat. — Toni Sorenson

The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats. — Stonewall Jackson

How sick are you? Holy crap. Are you dying or something? Is that why you're going on
a retreat and eating only lettuce? — Maisey Yates

Do you know Shimla Best Hotel name. When i come to shimla stay Snow King Retreat Hotel and enjoy happiest day your life. — R.D.Sharma

I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do ... — John Geddes

Peace comes through strength, not through retreat. — Kevin McCarthy

Life doesn't retreat. — Dan Simmons

In politics ... never retreat, never retract ... never admit a mistake. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Your comfort zone may be more like a cage you can't escape from than a safe place you can retreat to. — Chris Guillebeau

This speedy retreat left Georges-Picot under the impression that 'What the British want, is only to deceive the Arabs. — James Barr

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures. — Robert Greene

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

Warriors say: I dare not be like the host, but would rather be like the guest. I dare not advance an inch, but would rather retreat a foot. — Laozi

One who speaks deferentially but increases his preparations will advance. One who speaks belligerently and advances hastily will retreat. — Sun Tzu

The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat. — Ed Viesturs

Fight them everywhere. Don't give them a chance to breathe until they withdraw and retreat. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cause at night the sun in retreat,
Made the skyline look like crooked teeth,
In the mouth of a man who was devouring, us both. — Death Cab For Cutie

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
[The Minotaur] — Albert Camus

Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks. — Ian Hamilton Finlay

If the retreat house was a trap, it was a very nice one. — Elizabeth Hand

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it. — Anthony Giddens

I've decided to retreat to the spirit world where I feel appreciated and understood. — Dov Davidoff

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

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

Enjoy Colleen Hoover's first two New York Times bestselling books, Slammed and Point of Retreat, and become — Colleen Hoover

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

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

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

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

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

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

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