#retreat

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#corridors #decade #during #elephants #heavy

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. ↗

— Ferdinand Foch

#center #excellent #giving #i #retreat

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

#earnest #excuse #harsh #heard #i

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow. ↗

— Charles Olson

#heroes #imitation #present #retreat #will

Sometimes, things can happen in life that you didn't plan for. All you can do now is suck it up and start mapping out a new plan. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#life

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#i #reporters #retreated #some #totally

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

— Jim Bishop

#fly #found #future #had #i

Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction. ↗

— John Boehner

#distraction #fight #friends #iraq #often

I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#being #chased #comes #cut #decisions

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#civil #civil liberties #continues #democrats #essential