In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
This girl is the rest of my life.
Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles.
I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
And with distance in time it is the same as with distance in place. The imagination has its atmosphere and its sunlight as well as the earth has; only its mists are even more gorgeous and delicate, its aerial perspectives are even more wide and profo...
To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such as acting and dance) entertain. Literature, however, retreats from life by turning in into slumber. Th...
It was floating. Waiting. It had no sense of how long It had been in this state. Its awareness had retreated into a tiny core at the center of Its being, away from the searing torment of separation, Its very essence ripped apart. Never had It known s...
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant
Sometimes I retreat into sleep to advance my mood.
If the retreat house was a trap, it was a very nice one.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!
Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
