A Quote by Oliver P. Smith

Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.

Oliver P. Smith

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Advancing Different Direction Hell Just Retreat

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Oliver P. Smith
Military man
October 26, 1893 - December 25, 1977

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

Douglas MacArthur

We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant

Derek Landy

Craving that old sweet oneness yet dreading engulfment, wishing to be our mother's and yet be our own, we stormily swing from mood to mood, advancing and retreating-the quintessential model of two-mindedness.

Judith Viorst

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

T. S. Eliot

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

Mark Twain

In other countries, congenital introverts simply remain introverts all their lives, neither advancing nor retreating, but America's commitment to extroversion as a national art form can abrade some naturally aloof personalities until they flower into deadly nightshade.

Florence King

People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.

Andy Stanley

The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain power by going out into the world, but the scientist really wants to obtain power by retreating from the world.

Max Delbruck

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

John Gay

I just had this drive, this determination to do something different and to take my career in a different direction.

Stephanie Labbe

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

Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life's purpose.

Robin Sharma

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it. The time you spend living in fear is time you cannot spend living in love. The time you spend hiding and retreating from life is time you cannot spend growing and advancing and achieving.

Ralph Marston

In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an observation], and contrary to what is widely assumed by evolutionary biologists today, it has always been the anti-evolutionists [i.e creationist], not the evolutionists, in the scientific community who have struck rigidly to the facts and adhered to a more strictly empirical approach... It was Darwin the evolutionist who was retreating from the facts.