Retreating Quotes
Collection of top 30 famous quotes about Retreating
Retreating Quotes & Sayings
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And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.
— Dolley Madison
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
— Norman Mailer
Pretty stupid," I called after his retreating form. "To give up before all possible solutions have been tried.
— Maria V. Snyder
And so when the scar wraith approached him, he took a diagonal step backward putting himself behind Squirrel like a king retreating behind a pawn.
— Neal Shusterman
There are people out there who hate me and who say I'm arrogant, vain, and whatever. That's all part of my success. I am made to be the best.
— Cristiano Ronaldo
Beside her, Adam was once again retreating inside himself, most interested, as always, in the thing that remained unknowable to him: his own mind.
— Maggie Stiefvater
I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.
— Brian Wilson
Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.
— Nenia Campbell
Give me break," Polly said.
— Matthew Dicks
For me, beauty is always retreating from one's grasp: the only thing I consider important is what existed once, or ought to have existed.
— Yukio Mishima
I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.
— Banana Yoshimoto
They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.
— E. M. Forster
Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God's goal of the impossible.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
— Shaunti Feldhahn
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction
— Douglas MacArthur
Certain battles were won by retreating.
— Eoin Colfer
-Nice concept.-What is?
-Retreating. Getting away from the grind.
-Oh, you never do. You just change gears. — Jonathan Kellerman
Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.
— Oliver P. Smith
I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
— Mark Twain
A glacier will frequently move forward one foot while retreating three feet ... Which reminds me a lot of myself!
— Charles M. Schulz
Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.
— Franz Kafka
I want to be just fast enough for Zach to have to run to catch up, because if I stay ahead, I won't ever have to see his retreating back.
— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
