Quotes of Recede - somelinesforyou

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

- John Gay

“ I don't intend to retire. ”

- Bobby Knight

“ The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue. ”

- Mao Tse Tung

“ The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats. ”

- Dick Cheney

“ To retire is to begin to die. ”

- Pablo Casals

“ Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue. ”

- Mao Tse Tung

“ Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde. ”

- Virgil

“ To retire is to die. ”

- Pablo Casals

“ I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box. ”

- Bette Davis

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

- Jet Li

“ You can't put off being young until you retire. ”

- Philip Larkin

“ Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ”

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

“ Nothing recedes like success. ”

- Walter Winchell

“ All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. ”

- Edward Gibbon

“ I'm not a particularly attractive person - 5ft 8in, stooping, with a receding hairline. ”

- Moby

“ The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. ”

- Edwin Powell Hubble

“ This museum is a torpedo moving through time, its head the ever-advancing present, its tail the ever-receding past of 50 to 100 years ago. ”

- Alfred Barr

“ Will you be satisfied with the fruit of your life's work? Will the efforts you are making now bring you satisfaction when the things of time are receding, and eternity looms ahead? ”

- Raymond L. Cox

“ The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith. ”

- Vaclav Hlavaty
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