#retreat

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#forces #iraqi #iraqi forces #mother #retreats

You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#any #come #comes #crest #else

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat. ↗

— John Oates

#retreat #strike #you

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

— Ferdinand Foch

#center #excellent #giving #i #retreat

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. ↗

— Fridtjof Nansen

#keep #line #never #retreat #wretched

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

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

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy. ↗

— Henry Villard

#any #as far as #became #controlled #enemy

Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat. ↗

— Tracy K. Smith

#kind #retreat #writer