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I have a very bad habit of just retreating from any given altercation  (Retreating Quotes) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction  (Retreating Quotes) My center is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking  (Retreating Quotes) I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating  (Retreating Quotes) The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images  (Retreating Quotes) Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part in the world around them. Whereas artists are always retreating, locking the door, and inventing other worlds  (Retreating Quotes) What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History. Being faithful to all that happens to you of significance, recording days, dates, events, names, sights not relying merely upon memory which fades like a Polaroid print where you see the memory fading before your eyes like time itself retreating  (Retreating Quotes) Sorry this winter’s been so bad that you were genuinely ecstatic about a rodent not retreating into its burrow  (Retreating Quotes) They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon  (Retreating Quotes) Retreat, hell! We’re not retreating, we’re just advancing in a different direction  (Retreating Quotes) We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction. We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would harm us  (Retreating Quotes) I thought of all the times we’d been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed  (Retreating Quotes) I think there’s a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency  (Retreating Quotes) A glacier will frequently move forward one foot while retreating three feet... Which reminds me a lot of myself!  (Retreating Quotes) I always found myself more drawn to each religious milieu than I would have anticipated, but in time, a ghoulish threat of being absorbed in alien territory always sent me retreating to the blander and safer ground of home  (Retreating Quotes) Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else  (Retreating Quotes) Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I’m craving for, let it be that I died on the way than retreating from getting it  (Retreating Quotes) In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn’t ready for anyone to hear it. To remedy this, I took to retreating to stairwells as a safe place to sing and write music. It was there that I wrote most of my songs in college and really grew into an artist  (Retreating Quotes) 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  (Retreating Quotes) Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull into ourselves, retreating into either survivalist or escapist mode. To the contrary, this is the time for titans, not turtles. Now is the time to open our arms, expand our horizons, and dream big. Big problems require big solutions  (Retreating Quotes) And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take  (Retreating Quotes) This leads to the conclusion, it is time to finish retreating. Not one step back! Such should now be our main slogan... Henceforth the solid law of discipline for each commander, red army soldier, and commissar should be the requirement - not a single step back without order from higher command  (Retreating Quotes) I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself  (Retreating Quotes)