Quotes about retreat
A collection of quotes on the topic of retreat, world, likeness, life.
Quotes about retreat

“Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.”
This has appeared as a variant of Sun Tzu's assertion to "leave a way of escape." Tu Mu, commenting on Sun Tzu, advises, "Show him there is a road to safety..." Ch. 7; it has also recently appeared on the internet attributed to Scipio Africanus, but without citation.
Disputed

http://en.president.az/azerbaijan/karabakh
Quotes on Nagorno Karabakh

Source: The Art of War, Chapter X · Terrain

“We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant”
Source: Playing with Fire
Source: The Gospel of Matthew: Vol. 2, Chapters 11-28

“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”

Address at the Conference on Cosmic Design, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. (April 1999)

“My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.”
Mon centre cède, ma droite recule, situation excellente, j'attaque.
Message to Marshal Joseph Joffre during the First Battle of the Marne (8 September 1914), as quoted in Foch : Le Vainqueur de la Guerre (1919) by Raymond Recouly, Ch. 6

I. Bernard Cohen's thesis: Galileo believed only circular (not straight line) motion may be conserved (perpetual), see The New Birth of Physics (1960).
Sagredo, Day Four, Stillman Drake translation (1974) pp.283-284
Dialogues and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences (1638)

9 September 1950
Source: 1946 - 1953, "Song of herself"; interviews by Olga Campos, Sept. 1950, Chapter 'My life', p. 64

Source: Lectures on Negative Dialectics (1965-66), p. 16

Quoted in "Europe in Our Time, 1914 to the Present" - Page 571 - by Robert Reinhold Ergang - Europe - 1953

Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p.38

2013, Commencement Address at Ohio State University (May 2013)

2000s, Youth Q&A on the U.N. High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Agenda Report (2009)

1960s, A Time for Choosing (1964)

"The Order of the National Commissar for the Defense of the Soviet Union" (28 July 1942) Moscow http://www.stalingrad-info.com/order227.htm
Stalin's speeches, writings and authorised interviews

“And now German generals find it hard to explain away their retreat.”
Quoted in "These are the Russians" - Page 131 - by Richard Edward Lauterbach - 1945

Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Fire Book

2018, Speech at the University of Illinoise Speech (2018)

"Pardon me, but we did not have the time to exchange that kind of personal information. I could not have known! Moreover, I wish to assure both of you that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys. [...] I didn't actually see any, so I didn't get the chance."
Giulana and Magnus Bane in 1791, p. 13.
The Bane Chronicles, What Really Happened in Peru (2013)

I cannot begin to describe my emotions. Pygmalion seeing his statue come to life could not have been more deeply moved. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally, I would have given for that one which I had wrested from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence …
On the Invention of the Induction Motor
My Inventions (1919)

Turkish Wikipedia
https://quotestats.com/topic/attila-hun-quotes/

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“Books, I found, had the power to make time
stand still, retreat or fly into the future.”

“Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house.”
Simon to Clary, pg. 151
Variant: Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

"To the Public", No. 1 (1 January 1831) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2928t.html
The Liberator (1831 - 1866)
Context: I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; — but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal, and to hasten the resurrection of the dead.

The Lucky Mistake (1689).
Source: The Lucky Chance, Or, the Alderman's Bargain
“Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.”
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"Higher Education Under Siege: Implications for Public Intellectuals," Thought and Action (Fall 2006), p. 64

Source: The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution, 1994, p. 27

Rep. Budd: The Political Market vs. the Private Market http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/02/rep-budd-political-market-vs-private-market/ (May 2, 2017)
Fiji Day address, 10 October 2005

Letters and papers from Prison (1997), p. 311. May 25, 1944 letter to Eberhard Bethge,

On se fâche souvent contre les Gens de Lettres qui se retirent du monde. On veut qu'ils prennent intérêt à la Société dont ils ne tirent presque point d'avantage. On veut les forcer d'assister éternellement aux tirages d'une loterie où ils n'ont point de billet.
Maximes et Pensées (Van Bever, Paris :1923), #447
Reflections
"Curve" [Huxian]

Truthdig, Life Is Sacred, Sep 3, 2012 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/life_is_sacred_20120903/

Speech https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1938/oct/05/policy-of-his-majestys-government#column_366 in the House of Commons (5 October 1938) against the Munich Agreement
The 1930s

Quoted in "Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army" - Page 174 - by Catherine Merridale - History - 2007

The Clouds Have Left the Sky http://www.flickr.com/photos/gallettas_pics/119997132/.
Poetry

To ____ . (Let other Bards of Angels sing), st. 3 (1824).
Source: Lady of Mazes (2005), Chapter 24 (p. 265).

2000s, 2003, Remarks on U.S.-British relations and foreign policy (November 2003)
The Tin Men (London: Collins, 1965) p. 59.
Book III, Chapter 6, p. 439
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

In a letter to her sister Milly, 21 September 1899; as quoted in Voicing our visions, – Writings by women artists; ed. Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York, 1991, p. 199
1899

October 6, 2005 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/R?r109:FLD001:S11190
2000s

Quoted in "Unconditional Surrender" - Page 139 - by Everett Holles - 1945

“If I advance; follow me! If I retreat; kill me! If I die; avenge me!”
Attributed to Mussolini by G. K. Chesterton in G. K's Weekly (1925), and later appearing in "Duce (1922-42)" in TIME magazine (2 August 1943), this actually originates with Henri de la Rochejaquelein (1793), as quoted in Narrative of the French Expedition in Egypt, and the Operations in Syria (1816) by Jacques Miot
Attributed
Source: Ten Little Wizards (1988), Chapter 14 (p. 141)

"Westward The Course Of Empire Takes Its Way", Girl With Curious Hair
Short stories

The Me Above The Me
Grooks

United Nations General Assembly - Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/IntOrder/A-68-284_en.pdf.
2013

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Thomas Samuel Kuhn: 18 July 1922-17 June 1996 (1998)

The sun is high — the birds oppress'd with heat, translated by John Adamson in Lusitania Illustrata, Vol. I, 1842

Song lyrics, Singles and rarities
"Non Sum Dignus" st. 4–5, In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems, 1995, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0801851165

2010s, Commencement speech for Oberlin College Prep graduates (2015)

2000s, 2003, Mission Accomplished (May 2003)

"The Cool Web," lines 9–12, from Poems 1914-1926 (1927).
Poems