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Retreat Quotes
I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it. - Perry Como Quotes
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country. - James Wolfe Quotes
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. - Mary Mccarthy Quotes
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. - Phillip Chesterfield Quotes
The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. - C Wright Mills Quotes
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 Quotes
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. - Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes
I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard. - William Lloyd Quotes
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow. - Charles Olson Quotes
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. - Joseph Stalin Quotes
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. - Potter Stewart Quotes
I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard. - William Lloyd Garrison Quotes
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. - Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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 I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else. - Gerd Von Rundstedt Quotes
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. - Jim Bishop Quotes
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. - Bill Richardson Quotes
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. - Franklin D Roosevelt Quotes
The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems. - Lee H Hamilton Quotes
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment. - Andre Maurois Quotes
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 Quotes
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. - William Lloyd Garrison Quotes
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. - Marcus Aurelius Quotes
I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard! - William Lloyd Garrison Quotes
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. - Roland Barthes Quotes
There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and \"live\" with the characters. - Margaret Mahy Quotes
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