Retreat? NO. I propose to attach at daylight and whip them.
The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements. . . all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.
I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.
You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.
The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine as they are: Muslims, Hindus and so forth. The Church can never retreat comfortably to within the limits of her own environment. She is charged with universal solicitude; she must be concerned with and for one and all. . . We must. . . as the Lord says - go out ever anew 'to the highways and hedges' (Luke 14:23), to deliver God's invitation to his banquet also to those who have so far heard nothing or have not been stirred within.
All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles.
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.
You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.
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.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.
I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.
Happy couples make it a habbit to refocus. Because it's quite normal to be distracted. So they talk. They get away for a while. They pray. They go on a marriage retreat. They take a second honeymoon or a 3rd, or 4th, or a 5th. . .
I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Nowhere can anyone find a # quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his or her own # soul. We need to turn some things down and turn some things off. We need to be # quiet.
