I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings… — David Abram Copy Share Image
I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Really, one of us ought to have the courage to call the experiment off and shoulder the responsibility for the decision, but… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
“I think it’s a very brave thing to do. To start a new life in a new country.” — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears, Built as it has been in our waning years, A rest afforded to our weary… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
In landing operations, retreat is impossible, to surrender is as ignoble as it is foolish. above all else remember that we as… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I take things that are worn out through overuse, that have become cliches - like the shed, a traditional place of rest… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
