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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
A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.
— Robert Jordan
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A stone can be used for building a house, blocking a road, or killing someone. The same is true for any idea.
— Darrell Calkins
Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.
— Henry David Thoreau
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.
— Paul Goodman
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
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
There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game.
— Laura Lee Guhrke
Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Beware of extroverts in retreat center clothing!
— Laurie A. Helgoe
Reform is not a period of retreat.
— David Remnick
Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.
— Tony Blair
Sometimes, things can happen in life that you didn't plan for. All you can do now is suck it up and start mapping out a new plan.
— Colleen Hoover
A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.
— Tonny K. Brown
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
Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
— Fridtjof Nansen
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
Together we alternate back and forth, protecting our own retreat. When his flame falls, my lightning rises, and so on. Together, we have a chance. He
— Victoria Aveyard
If you retreat in response to desire rather than deprivation, the deprivation may never come.
— Laurie A. Helgoe
Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.
— Cheryl Strayed
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
— William Wycherley
Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.
— Isaac Barrow
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
— Jet Li
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
— Sylvester Stallone
I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.
— Oliver P. Smith
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
That's who I was. Always an outsider. As the outsider, you can retreat into a shell, be anonymous, be invisible. Or
— Trevor Noah
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
— Agnes Repplier
The divine is a mystery, so the impulse to really discover, like a child, has to be the core response to anything.
— Darrell Calkins
I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
— Ed Stoppard
There was a part of him (her) that dreamed, and he (she) was not sure if that part could ever retreat into an interminable silence.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A masterful retreat is itself a victory.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat,To peep at such a world; to see the stir
Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd. — William Cowper
Well, if I must, fine. I'll guard the retreat," said Alexia. "Buy us some time." "What, in a clock shop?
— Gail Carriger
A retreat will teach you again and again that you are neither indispensable nor self-sufficient.
— Karen Lord
Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
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
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
Running is just such a monestarya retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal. — George Sheehan
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
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
You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation ...
— Paulo Coelho
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
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 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
The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.
— Duke Of Wellington
I am running away but I prefer to call it a strategic retreat.
— Tennessee Williams
Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself ... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.
— Donald Woods Winnicott
That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
— Aphra Behn
In a state of self-pity, one may retreat from the world in which one has been blessed to live.
— Amor Towles
A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space.
— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
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
A woman's noblest station is retreat.
— George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.
— Michel De Montaigne
Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go
— Chuck Palahniuk
I am in earnestI will not equivocate
I will not excuse
I will not retreat a single inch
And I will be heard.
— William Lloyd Garrison
Jesus was a hiker. The wilderness was His retreat.
— Toni Sorenson
How sick are you? Holy crap. Are you dying or something? Is that why you're going ona retreat and eating only lettuce? — Maisey Yates
Your comfort zone may be more like a cage you can't escape from than a safe place you can retreat to.
— Chris Guillebeau
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
— Aleksandar Hemon
Fight them everywhere. Don't give them a chance to breathe until they withdraw and retreat.
— Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
In politics ... never retreat, never retract ... never admit a mistake.
— Napoleon Bonaparte