Retired Quotes - Page 13

• Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.

  Edward Topsell

  Cat, House

  Edward Topsell (1981). “Histories of Beasts”, Burnham Incorporated Pub

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• I have a letter from a police inspector, retired after some 30 years in rural Derbyshire, alerting me to the potential impact of a total ban on hunting on relationships between the police and the community in rural areas - a particularly significant consideration in current circumstances. Is it, I ask myself, sensible to divert valuable police time to enforce a ban on hunting when they are under so much pressure from violent crime?

  Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford

  Hunting, Impact, Years

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• I've got to make a new life for myself, I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure now that I'm retired. I've been doing things people expected of me always. I want to feel free. I want to sit under a linden tree with nothing more important to worry about than the temperature of the beer, if there is anything more important.

  Walter Huston

  Beer, People, Worry

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• At a very young age, I was in Germany watching TV and I told my mom I wanted to be an actor. She said, 'Go for it.' When my dad retired from the military, we moved to Los Angeles, and it all kicked off.

  Khleo

  Mom, Dad, Military

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• I feel outside of the system where you’re male or female. So I just retired from caring. I don’t represent myself as a man or as a woman. I represent myself by not participating as either.

  Rae Spoon

  Caring, Men, Males

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• I mean I'll be retired from rap, so what I'll be doin' in rap will be for fun.

  Tone-Loc

  Fun, Rap, Mean

  "Still Loc'ed After Dark". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. June 2, 2000.

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• When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons.

  George Carlin

  School, Hygiene, Jersey

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• I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.

  George Mason

  Justice, Common, Conviction

  Letter to Arthur Campbell, May 7, 1783.

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• I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

  David Cone

  Baseball, School, Player

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• The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself.

  Henry Fairlie

  Believe, Greatness, Destiny

  "Paralysis in a Risk-Free Society" by Henry Fairlie, www.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 1979.

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• I think among the retired FBI agents there are some who would not like to see him come back, but I think the people running the FBI now are interested in catching him.

  Howie Carr

  Running, Thinking, Fbi Agents

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• Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Retirement, People, Merit

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• One of the best things about being [joyfully] retired is the freedom to travel when I want. When my son and daughter-in-law asked me to stay at their house for a week to house-sit while they were away on vacation, I had the freedom to do it.

  Helen A. Rosburg

  Daughter, Travel, Son

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• The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspiration, Silly, Years

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.124, e-artnow

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• Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.

  Jamie Moyer

  Mom, Couple, Dad

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• Nowadays, a 13-year-old would probably know more than Bobby Fischer knew when he retired. They analyse all the moves and prepare themselves on their computers. But that doesn’t mean they are special.

  Garry Kasparov

  Moving, Mean, Years

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• The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.

  John Grisham

  Teacher, Book, School

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• I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

  Jack Kilby

  Two, Directors, Littles

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• I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Retirement, Retiring

  "A Rickey Reunion?". Interview with Susan Slusser, www.sfgate.com. May 18, 2007.

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• There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Inspirational, Basketball, Done

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• When I said I retired from basketball playing, I have retired. You will not see me play again. That is a promise.

  Karl Malone

  Inspirational, Basketball, Play

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• You listen to the mind, you become miserable - otherwise, this today is paradise! And there is no other paradise, this today is nirvana. If you had not listened to the mind... just don't listen to the mind, then you are not in misery; because misery cannot exist without expectations and without hopes. And when misery exists you need more hopes for it, to hide it, to live somehow. Live hopelessly - then you are a righteous man, then you are retired.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Righteous Man, Expectations

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• What do gardeners do when they retire?

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Retirement, Humor

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• There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!

  Groucho Marx

  Retirement, Work, Age

  "Fictional character: Captain Jeffrey Spaulding". "Animal Crackers", August 20, 1930.

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• In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

  Bertrand Russell

  Truth, Mistake, Party

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