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Letter "R" » retreating
«My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I am attacking.»
«I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.»
«Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.»
«How does life become totally painful? By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.[?]But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.»
«In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.»
«Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.»
Author: Norman Mailer | Keywords: every bit, retreating
«I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: retreating
«In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.»
«The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.»
«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 the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of thee.»

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