74 Quotes About Retreat

You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.

That saint who advances on his knees never retreats...

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

I'm like the trunk of a cactus... I take in a dose of culture and time with friends, then I retreat and go live on it for awhile until I get thirsty again.

The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.

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

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

He who retreats lives longer.

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat.