#retreat

My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear. ↗

— James Longstreet

#broken #changed #command #corps #defeat

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#certainly #characters #everyday #everyday life #life

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. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#bit #dying #every #existence #growing

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#purchased #retreats #strength #unilateral #weakness

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

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#battles #consists #fighting #happiness #itself

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. ↗

— Potter Stewart

#core #free #governmental #his #history

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

— Fridtjof Nansen

#keep #line #never #retreat #wretched

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

— Charles Olson

#heroes #imitation #present #retreat #will

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#i #reporters #retreated #some #totally