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Quotes About Retreat

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
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
~ Sun Tzu
If I tap that little bell, I can send you to a place where you will never hear the dogs bark.
~ Edwin M. Stanton
Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
~ William Cowper
Fierce language and pretentious advances are signs that the enemy is about to retreat.
~ Sun Tzu
A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten not only his safety and well-being but his sanity, his innermost soul, then retreat is not a sign of weakness but the most prudent course.
~ Susan Hill
She buried herself so deep in the book no harm could ever find her.
~ Susan Johnson
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~ Susan Lewis
Sometimes God gives us safe places to retreat so we can come back healed.
~ Susan May Warren
For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.
~ Suzanne Somers
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~ Suzanne Young
Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.
~ Joe Cocker
You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.
~ Marie Osmond
I've retreated to what I was originally, which is an individual songwriter.
~ Denny Laine
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
For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.
~ Suzanne Somers
Where does one run to escape from feelings?
~ B.J. Neblett
I am going to build a fortress of books.Will you come inside and live with me?
~ Kamand Kojouri
He also dropped out of the scene and is no longer to be found among other flambeurs.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden.
~ Nathanael West
Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a supernatural voice had called him onward, and that a supernatural power had obstructed his retreat.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
And so when the scar wraith approached him, he took a diagonal step backward putting himself behind Squirrel like a king retreating behind a pawn.
~ Neal Shusterman
I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything.
~ Charles Bukowski