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Quotes About Retreat

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.
~ Sun Tzu
Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he will retreat.
~ Sun Tzu
Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he will retreat.
~ Sun Tzu
Si, réduits au désespoir, ils viennent pour vaincre ou pour périr, évitez leur rencontre. À un ennemi encerclé vous devez laisser une voie de sortie.
~ Sun Tzu
How can you have a book for a friend?" Abby asked. "You can't talk to them." "No, but they can take you away to another place. With books, the world feels safe.
~ Susan Mallery
From the outside, it wasn't much. But to her it was everything she needed. A place to retreat and lick her wounds. Somewhere she didn't have to pretend. Sanctuary.
~ Susan Mallery
His great love, however, was the detective story, which he described as "the one dependable and unfailing anodyne in a world so realistically murderous that fictive murder becomes refuge and retreat.
~ Susan Quinn
And that refuge was the most reliable place of all—between the pages of a book.
~ Susan Wiggs
In the Soviet Union, it's takes more courage to retreat than advance.
~ Joseph Stalin
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
~ Joseph Stalin
The tale of retreat and evacuation is not a parochial British story, that bit of history that happened before America and Russia joined in. It is the story of the global preservation of freedom, of the prevention of a new dark age. It deserves to be remembered
~ Joshua Levine
I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me.
~ Julia Donaldson
busman's holiday
~ Faith Martin
Neither they nor Warren Rochelle (' Dual Attractions', 1999) nor Chris West (' Queer Fears and Critical Orthodoxies', 2002) (who focuses on homosexuality) ground their critiques in the periods in which Heinlein was writing, the editors he was writing for, or the librarians who could decide whether books did or did not make it onto the shelves in a period in which libraries were only just starting to retreat from the position of major purchasers.
~ Farah Mendlesohn
por onde ella logo com medo fugia para a concava funda da casa do fumo,
~ Fernão Mendes Pinto
The only sane option was to retreat back out into the corridor. Fortunately sanity had never really slowed Neverfell down.
~ Frances Hardinge
Home was a refuge for me, a place I could truly relax.
~ Billy Graham
force. I have fallen back on the Bull Run,
~ Blair Howard
Un nuevo empleado de una gran compañía asiste a una convivencia de fin de semana de la empresa y no tarda en descubrir que alguien intenta matarle: The Retreat (Convivencia de empresa).1
~ Blake Snyder
To be set on fire, you must get close to God. When you feel cold, distant, and "out of it" spiritually, it's time to retreat to the closet, place yourself before the fireplace of His word, and allow the intensity of His face to restore your fervency.
~ Bob Sorge
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
~ bovee christian nestell xi
The night-crawlers had retired, but ripe chinaberries drummed on the roof when the wind stirred, and the darkness was desolate with the barking of distant dogs.
~ Harper Lee
Sometimes, when the world gets too hard to live in, I come here for vodka and tonic.
~ Haruki Murakami
'In Case You Didn't Know' was written in Mexico, actually, on a songwriter's retreat.
~ Brett Young