Retreating Quotes
51 quotes by 48 authors
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President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology. Al-Qa'ida seeks to terrorize us…
— John O. Brennan
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One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another…
— David O. McKay
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We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction. We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to…
— George Orwell
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Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.
— Oliver P. Smith
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Whenever you feel uncomfortable, instead of retreating back into your old comfort zone, pat yourself on the back and say, "I must be growing," and…
— T. Harv Eker
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Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an…
— Michael Denton
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Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull…
— Van Jones
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Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of…
— Pema Chodron
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The progress of the Way seems retreating.
— Laozi
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I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
— Mark Twain
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The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION is a manual and a call to action for awakened patriots who are too intelligent to believe the leftist media lies and distortions...…
— Sarah Palin
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For a long time Christianity has sewn its teachings into the fabric of Western culture. That was a good thing …. But the season of…
— R. R. Reno
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In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't ready for anyone to hear it.…
— Kina Grannis
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must…
— Michel de Montaigne
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We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back upon the frontier…
— James A. Michener
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Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I'm craving for, let it be that i died…
— Michael Bassey
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Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
— Douglas MacArthur
Who Wrote These Retreating Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 51 Retreating Quotes, led by these top contributors: