A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
William Wycherley

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
Jim Bishop

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
Randall Terry

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
Charles Dickens

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
Napoleon Hill

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.
Mary Matalin

Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!
Ngo Dinh Diem

I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!
William Lloyd Garrison

I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.
Perry Como

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
Jet Li

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
Sylvester Stallone

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.
William Lloyd Garrison

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
Philip Kearny

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
Mary McCarthy

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
Joseph Stalin

It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else.
Gerd von Rundstedt

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.
Fiorello LaGuardia

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle.
Philip Gibbs

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
Victoria Secunda