A Quote by Laozi

Going forward seems like retreat.

Laozi

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Forward Going Like Retreat Seems

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Laozi
Chinese - Philosopher
604 BC - 531 BC

We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.

Bernie Sanders

The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.

David B. Coe

We have brave hearts and won't retreat. We are not going back; we are going forward.

Cyril Ramaphosa

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

Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death

Stella Adler

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

Jeremy Corbyn

It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

John Gay

Coordinating the retreat was important too, so important that Jiaan had assigned Aram as Fasal's assistant, to be sure he didn't overlook anything important. Like the fact that they were supposed to retreat.

Hilari Bell

It seems like I'm not [happy]. Because if you look at my tweets and what I think and say, it seems like I'm worried about what's going to happen.

Tao Lin

I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.

Zooey Deschanel

Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.

Aleksandar Hemon

The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

That is what we have been feinting towards for a year of our lives: pretending like it was going to happen, acting like it was going to happen, and making you think it was going to happen. I like to work from the back forward.