Retreated Quotes
32 quotes by 30 authors
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I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.
— William Wordsworth
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Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and…
— John F. Kerry
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I was very uncomfortable with all the attention when it first started happening to me. I retreated quite a bit from the world, both physically…
— Dennis Quaid
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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most…
— Max Weber
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The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a…
— Don Young
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What would be the difference if we retreated and let the French and Germans make decisions for the world? We tried that twice in the…
— Tammy Bruce
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The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the…
— Richard Leakey
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You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just retreated a little…
— Jane Austen
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Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.
— Richard Leakey
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The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too…
— Yasunari Kawabata
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You know, I was a kid who had difficulty speaking English when I first immigrated. But in my head, when I read a book, I…
— Junot Diaz
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Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
— Terry Eagleton
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I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said, smiling. "You can hold on to…
— Charlaine Harris
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In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it…
— Barbara Mertz
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As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of…
— Mohsin Hamid
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Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up…
— Marya Hornbacher
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[W]hen Ben was kissing me, the whole world retreated. I felt things I'd never felt before, in places I never knew were connected. But I…
— Rosemary Clement-Moore
Who Wrote These Retreated Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 32 Retreated Quotes, led by these top contributors: