Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a very bad habit of just retreating from any given altercation. — Lucas Hedges Copy Share Image
We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“American civilization isn’t advancing as fast as our military is. The only problem is we should be retreating.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Once we fired the first shot, all of our choices disappeared. We were just reacting and retreating. And dying.” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
“It was enough to make me feel like retreating into some wooded or snowy clime, where only the most determined photographers or… — Tara Altebrando Copy Share Image
A glacier will frequently move forward one foot while retreating three feet... Which reminds me a lot of myself! — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Pretty stupid,” I called after his retreating form. “To give up before all possible solutions have been tried. — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction. — Oliver P. Smith Copy Share Image
“We're not retreating." (Illyria) (Spike) "It's so much easier if you just tell yourself you're strategically heading in the opposite direction of… — Brian Lynch Copy Share Image
We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such… — Philip Kearny Copy Share Image
“I found a note he'd left behind entitled 'Ciao': One just keeps saying, 'No...No...No...' Head bowed, hat in hand, A cringing, cunning… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Snow pursued by the wind is not wholly unlike a retreating army. In the open field it ranges itself in ranks and… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I was retreating, I knew, back into the numb place I’d lived after Mom died, and even more so after Dad had.… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
If a band or artist isn't tweeting or writing posts on Facebook every day, there can be this kind of mystique built… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction. We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I became very timid, very retreating. I wouldn't talk to anybody. I didn't look you in the eye. I just had that… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
“Soon he essentially stopped talking. "I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode," he mentioned. Eventually, he was down to uttering… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Nothing ever really attacks us except our own… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know …nothing ever really attacks us except our own… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are… — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Copy Share Image
“As we walk away I know they’re watching, these two men who aren’t yet permitted to touch women. They touch with their… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is; it is anticipating how it will be perceived.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Nice concept. -What is? -Retreating. Getting away from the grind. -Oh, you never do. You just change gears.” — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I can’t change any of this. ‘No. But you’re giving up. I can see it happening.’ I’m temporarily retreating, Dave. Don’t worry.… — Dee Henderson Copy Share Image
“We're just going to retreat?” “We are not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.” — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“I wonder: instead of retreating and hiding, instead of pining for the way it was, what if I accept the way it… — Ann Kidd Taylor Copy Share Image
Rather than retreating from or trying to get around a negative circumstance you're in, it is best to confront it head-on and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone… — Kina Grannis Copy Share Image
“You’re an English major, aren't you?” “Hey!” Immediately retreating, Keith swatted at him with a dishcloth. “Leave my brain alone. It’s resting.”… — Matthew Haldeman-Time Copy Share Image
“I swoon into a standing eight count. Goddamn, I actually feel my consciousness want to detach and hide like a turtle retreating… — Paul Tremblay Copy Share Image
“Although it often appears to be the case, retreating to God is not an impulse bred of cowardice. Rather, it is a… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
