The withdrawal of more than half a million Russian troops…

“For unlike many of our previous opponents, Russian troops tended to stand firm when under air attack. Rather than dive for cover, most would…

— Helmit Mahlke

Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.

— William Wordsworth

Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping…

— William Wordsworth

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

— Confucius

As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely…

— Robert Dallek

The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains

— Ron Silver

For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other…

— Anonymous

“The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Do you want to increase your hunger for the Lord? Try weaning yourself from the world's diet- be prepared for some withdrawal symptoms when…

— Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“You can withdraw from the sufferings of the world — that possibility is open to you and accords with your nature — but perhaps…

— Franz Kafka

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from…

— Milton Babbitt

A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country…

— Anonymous

“It was gentler here, softer, its seethe the quietest of whispers, as if, in deference to a drawing room, it had quite deliberately put…

— Conrad Aiken

A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority…

— Alan Greenspan