Retreat Quotes - Page 5

When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

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

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

Don't fret, Grannie. We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her

Coordinating the retreat was important too, so important that Jiaan had assigned Aram as Fasal's assistant, to be sure he didn't overlook anything important. Like the fact that they were supposed to retreat.

Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy.

I had gotten to the point where I just didn't want to perform anymore - I didn't want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.

The regime must allow immediate and unrestricted access to every site, every document, and every person identified by inspectors. Iraq can be certain that the old game of cheat-and-retreat tolerated at other times will no longer be tolerated.

One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

A woman's noblest station is retreat.

In a retreat the lame are formost. [In a retreat the lame are foremost.]

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.

When there are conflicts of observation, when experiments cannot be replicated, scientists may then retreat to a study of the various specific observations so as to explain the conflict, in the course of which they would make use of the concept of observation, or of some specification of that concept.

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

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

What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.

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

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

Life doesn't retreat.

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

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.

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