Retiring Quotes - Page 8

• The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

  Paul Ryan

  Retirement, Children, People

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• When the hell is Warren Moon going to retire? I mean, this guy is older than the cuneiform in Nebuchadnezzar's tomb.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Mean, Moon

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• The question why did you retire is a much nicer one than why don't you retire

  Mike Hawthorn

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• I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working.

  Elaine Stritch

  Blood, Sugar, Intention

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• Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you get negative, then you start telling people about your latest surgeries, and eventually you lose touch. I want to stay in touch.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  People, Negative, Want

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• I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

  James Taylor

  Able, Looking Forward, Figures

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I adore the game of golf. I won't ever retire.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Golf, Games

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• I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

  Mary Wesley

  Florida, People, Boring

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• Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?

  Betty White

  Retirement, Blessed, Thinking

  "Actress-author Betty White". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2011.

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• Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

  Serena Williams

  Champion, Legacy, Able

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• When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.

  Martin Yan

  Life, Passing Away, Looks

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• When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a dream? When, in my rags—without desires—shall I retire contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely sickness and crime, age and death, shall I—free, fearless, and blissful—retire to the forest? When? When, oh when?

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Joy, Fearless

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• But here's what I would tell people of my generation. I turn 40 this year. There isn't going to be a Social Security. There isn't going to be a Medicare when you retire. Forget about what your benefit is going to look like. There isn't going to be one if we don't make some reforms to save that program now.

  Marco Rubio

  Years, People, Reform

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• Let's get a couple of things straight. It hasn't been years and years since I made a movie. I'm not coming back from the dead - I've just had two kids! I have no intention of retiring, but I do think it's impossible to do movie after movie, because there aren't that many good films made.

  Julia Roberts

  Retirement, Couple, Kids

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• Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

  Cliff Martinez

  Fashion, Taste, Pops

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• You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

  Al Pacino

  Retirement, Thinking, Insecurity

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• Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.

  Aaron Peirsol

  Years, Stuff, Strange

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• The great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up. That is possible for those who never argue and strive with people and facts, but in all experience retires upon themselves, and look for the ultimate cause of things in themselves.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Character, People, Secret

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• The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Jobs, Delicate Life, Tea

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• I need to retire from retirement.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Retirement, Needs

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• It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.

  Peter O'Toole

  Heart, Gone, Film

  "Peter O'Toole announces retirement" by Adam B. Vary, www.cnn.com. July 10, 2012.

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• Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

  Yoko Ono

  Old You

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• I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Stupid, Stuff, Idiot

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I will die, but not retire.

  Michael Palin

  Dies

  "Michael Palin: 'I will die, but not retire'" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. July 04, 2013.

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