Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself. — Marcus Aurelius
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl. — Nellie L. McClung
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail. — Anton Chekhov
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. — Joseph Stalin
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. — Miguel de Cervantes
If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and
shut out pardon. — Saint Augustine
We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant — Derek Landy
A glacier will frequently move forward one foot while retreating three feet... Which reminds me a lot of myself! — Charles M. Schulz
The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat. — Duke of Wellington
Cause your opponent to repent, then let him fall — Kyuzo Mifune
It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own. — Marcus Aurelius
Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year.
[Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.] — Horace
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. — F. H. Bradley
Short Retraction Quotes
If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro — Bruce Fogle
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. — Joseph Joubert
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. — Adlai E. Stevenson
Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse. — Ravi Zacharias
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl. — Nellie Mcclung
The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract. — T. S. Eliot
Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. — Adlai Stevenson
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did. — Ibn Gabirol
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth. — Joseph Joubert
I have nothing to regret, to retract or take back . . . I can only say; God Save Ireland! — Edward Condon
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. — Zelda Fitzgerald
You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently. — Abraham Lincoln
Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Supreme Court justices, legislators, lobbyists - but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf. — Katha Pollitt
We can't retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here. — Jamie Foxx
With Russia about to hold the Winter Games in Sochi, the country is open to pressure. American and world leaders must speak out against Mr. Putin's attacks and the violence they foster. The Olympic Committee must demand the retraction of these laws under threat of boycott. — Harvey Fierstein
What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed. — T. S. Eliot
I said in my earlier book, and find no reason for retracting my statement, that the famous Jewish sense of humour got lost in transit to Israel. — George Mikes
With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory. — Glenn Reynolds
I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things. — Mary Hart
Winter near the shore is cold. The wind kicks up a salty mist and elephant seals come to shore to trumpet and rut and birth their pups. Retired people put sweaters on their lap dogs and drag them down the street on retractable leashes in a nightly parade of doggy humiliation. Surfers don their wetsuits against the chill of storm waves and white sharks adjust their diets to include shrink-wrapped dude-snacks on fiberglass crackers. — Christopher Moore
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. — Unknown
I think the bottom line for me and for Newsweek is that there were a lot of - we did retract this specific matter about the Koran and the toilet for the reasons that you just cited. — Michael Isikoff
If you get a President (Hillary) Clinton, you might well find, just as after Vietnam, that there is a retraction from Iraq and of American influence in the world. And in a couple of years the Europeans will be complaining about that too. — John Bolton
I don't want a single state. And I talked about two states where a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes the Jewish state, and I stand by that. I haven't retracted my position; I haven't changed it. — Benjamin Netanyahu
Trump's victory is an opportunity for Israel to immediately retract the notion of a Palestinian state. — Naftali Bennett
Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes. I'm going to look stupid. I'm going to say things I want to retract. I'm going to sing notes I wish I could have back, there's just no getting around the stumble, but if you stumble enough times you're going to fall off the edge and have no choice but to freakin' fly. — Ben Harper
The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay still, but retract. — Philippa Perry
I think I've always been aware of it with my music. I think growing up basically and having a lot to deal with and just slowing down and having something to say and something to retract from, I think I just knew that what I was doing was extremely honest. — Justin Vernon
My message to the Pope would be, don't take sides on the science. Don't make the same mistake as seven out of 10 judges in the trial of Galileo, when they invited him to retract his views. — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
I think it's retarded. I probably shouldn't say that. I think it's stupid. If you want a Super Bowl, put a retractable dome on your stadium. Then you can get one. Other than that, I don't really like the idea. I don't think people would react very well to it, or be glad to play anybody in that kind of weather. — Joe Flacco
The New York Times has had fake stories. CBS has had fake stories. And now Newsweek had a fake story. You realize the only one that hasn't had to print a retraction is the National Inquirer — Jay Leno
When you're in doubt about the future and you're in doubt about how solid this thing is that you're laying your life and your soul on the line for, you will probably retract into yourself a little bit and think, No, there's only so much I can give to something that everyone doesn't believe in. There's been chipping away, people have been chipping away at it, so it's just you in the spotlight in front of all these people. — Richard Ashcroft
... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs.
The Nature of Mathematics — Max Black
Think of the moment you count
most foul in your life;
conjure it,
supplicate,
pray to it;
your face is bleak, you retract,
you dare not remember it. — Hilda Doolittle
Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne,
Poets who wrote great poems, one by one,
And spaced by many years, each line an act
Through which few labor, which no men retract.
This passion is the scholar's heritage — Yvor Winters
the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall. — Susan Faludi
As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it. — Samuel Johnson
Since liberals never print retractions, they can say anything. What they said in the past is always deemed inadmissible and unfair to quote. — Ann Coulter
It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most prominent retraction never quite undoes the damage done by the original publication. — Tom Wicker
Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat is a relatively small, primarily carnivorous mammal with retractible claws, a distinctive sonic output, etc.? I'll bet not. You probably show the kid a lot of different cats, saying 'kitty' each time, until it gets the idea. To put it more generally, generalizations are best made by abstraction from experience. — Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life. — Abraham Lincoln
Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it. — Tom Lehrer
If you want a Super Bowl, put a retractable dome on your stadium — Joe Flacco
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