#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

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#another #direction #retreating

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

A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

#book #considered #form #head #hearing

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 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

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#i #reporters #retreated #some #totally

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat. ↗

— John Gay

#die #must #retreat #who

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

— Jet Li

#buddhism #few #i #i do #in the past

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