Quotes About Retreat

We've had to pull out of so many countries in Northern Africa.

If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They're not holding onto me. I can get away from them.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on.

People forgot about us, which was what we wanted. We could be left alone without any pressure to make music.

There are no places better than Mahabaleshwar and Khandala to spend one's free time.

He needed to get away from the rush of the city, from the unceasing noise and annoying obligations.

That was the story of college: one obsession after another; an advance followed by a retreat; a breakthrough dissolving into a setback. It was a reprise of the years preceding it and an omen of the years to come.It It could be broken down into the forces and schemes that propelled me

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

Glory?! Have you gone MAD? There's no glory to be had now! Only retreat -- or surrender -- or death! That's an easy chose for us, arcadian! SPARTANS NEVER RETREAT! SPARTANS NEVER SURRENDER!

And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye to everything up here, to go down into my burrow never to return again, let things take their course, and not try to retard them with my profitless vigils.

Instead I have always hidden from you, in my room, among my books, with crazy friends, or with extravagant ideas.

I was at a place called Mukteshwar. I have a property there and the best part about it is that you can see the Himalayan mountain ranges from there. Also, there's a lot of wildlife around my house. There are sambars, barking deers and leopards too.

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

You have to have a lot of experience and confidence and a willingness to go down when things aren't right and try again. That's when people in the Himalayas get hurt, when they don't have the knowledge or willingness to retreat when necessary. There's no place for a macho attitude in the Himalayas. It's what gets people killed.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

I've been hiding from the real world all my life.

We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

If we are going to be for the world as Christ meant for us to be, we are going to have to spend more time away from the world, in deep prayer and substantial spiritual training—just as Jesus retreated to the desert to pray before ministering to the people. We cannot give the world what we do not have.

I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he's quite right. I'm not going to delve into controversy. Somebody asked me the other day if this means that I'm going to be a meek conformist, and my answer is no. I'm just acting the role of a tired non-conformist.

A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

When people feel threatened and anxious they become more rigid, and when in doubt they tend to become dogmatic; and then they lose their own vitality. They use the remnants of traditional values to build a protective encasement and then shrink behind it; or they make an outright panicky retreat into the past. But

Socrates' demonstration of the defect in the officers' concept of courage has some important implications. A commander who believed that ordering a retreat was cowardly would be severely constrained in his options; one who had a broader definition would have more tactical choices.