"You have to know when to strike and…" — John Oates

"You have to know when to strike and when to retreat."

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40 Quotes by John Oates

John Oates has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to…
We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get…
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.
With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
In the days when regional music was very clearly defined and had a clear personality - Memphis, Detroit, Chicago, whatever…
I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.
When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.
Young people go to concerts.
I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class.
I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.
A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.

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More Retreat Quotes

This quote is filed under Retreat Quotes, one of 372 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good… — Aphra Behn
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats. — Dick Cheney
Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat. — Francesca Annis
My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against… — Michel de Montaigne
The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat. — Duke of Wellington
The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest,… — Lewis Francis Herreshoff
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication… — Max Delbruck
A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country… — Sun Tzu

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