Retiring Quotes - Page 17

• I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion.

  Jana Novotna

  Fashion, Thinking, Tennis

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• Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Passion, Mind, Faces

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.143

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• Retiring from cricket is not about form. I feel that the time is now and it's right. I've tried to give everything I have when I've played the game, the game goes on. You can't hold onto it and people shouldn't be too sentimental. I think a lot better players and greater players have gone, and the game has gone on and there are new players who take the mantle, and in my case it won't be any different.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Player, Thinking, Sri Lanka

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• I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

  Russell B. Long

  Uncles, Thinking, Garters

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• The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.

  Margaret Mead

  Men, House, Important

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• Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

  Keith Richards

  Inspirational, Play, Wheelchairs

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• The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

  Gloria Swanson

  Divorce, Desert, Caves

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• We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.

  Stephan Pastis

  Running, Needs, Cartoonist

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• I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. In this they are encouraged by wives and relatives, and it's such a sweet trap.

  John Steinbeck

  Spiritual, Sweet, Passion

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• I've truly been blessed. I've taken my time, kept my eye on the prize and done what I've had to do. So I'm able to make a choice when to retire. Most fighters really couldn't.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Blessed, Taken, Eye

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• The public is ready now for a safety net for the middle class, something not just for the poor, but for everyone who will need help, from time to time, in order to own a home, educate their kids, keep themselves healthy or have something to retire on.

  Barney Frank

  Home, Kids, Order

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• The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

  Blaise Pascal

  Amusement, Illness

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Principles, Doe, Tranquility

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.76, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.

  Kimbra

  Balance, Trying, Sacred

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• The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.

  Garrison Keillor

  Fall, Ideas, People

  "Keillor To Retire From Prairie Home In 2013" by wenn.com, March 18, 2011.

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• Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case.

  Jim Crace

  Writing, Careers, Bitterness

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• Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.

  Sharon Jones

  New York, Lakes, Fishing

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 15, 2010.

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• I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Choices, Obedience, Sensible

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Fall, Men, Favors

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.58, Hackett Publishing

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• The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;
  The glorious host of light walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;
  All through her silent watches, gliding slow,
  Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.

  William C. Bryant

  Stars, Dark, Night

  William Cullen Bryant, “Hymn To The North Star”

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• Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or writer to retire for an instant while another and greater makes himself heard. And this calling-up of the deathless dead implies also a community of mind with them, which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself.

  William Francis Henry King

  Writing, Community, Mind

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• I suppose I'm not quite the oldest detective on the block - David Jason is. When's he going to retire and give rest of us a chance?! No, his Touch Of Frost is terrific and a wonderful antidote to the po-faced detective shows around at the moment. Anyway, I can't retire. I have a wife and five chickens to feed.

  John Nettles

  Block, Giving, Wife

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• What's missing from the online experience is community. Married couples are still going to need something to do on Tuesday nights, right? And it's not going to be individually retiring to their offices to watch on their computers. It's: "We just put the meat loaf dishes away, let's go watch television." It's going to happen. We shouldn't be so led around by other models.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Couple, Night, Office

  Source: deadline.com

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• The happiest people I know are the ones that are still working. The saddest are the ones who are retired. Very few performers retire on their own. It's usually because no one wants them. Six years ago Sinatra announced his retirement. He's still working.

  George Burns

  Retirement, Years, People

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• I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.

  Dolly Parton

  Bob, Want, Intention

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

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