#retreat

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 the Christmas tree. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#alarm #arm #between #boldly #brilliance

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#because #continue #doing #fighters #having

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#give #great #life #our #private

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#always #ask #attack #i #i always

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

— Mary McCarthy

#dictated #ethical #even #honorable #military

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#any #comes #company #continental #corporation

You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things. ↗

— Russell Pearce

#because #defend #defense #freedom #going

The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances. ↗

— Joseph McCabe

#interpreters #nature #other #retreats #rival

When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#again #attacking #big #call #fire

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