Retiring Quotes - Page 28

• The minute I think I'm getting mellow, I'm retiring. Who ever heard of a mellow winner?

  Woody Hayes

  Thinking, Winner, Minutes

  "Hayes produced champions, controversy" by Alex Fineman, www.espn.com.

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• I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments.

  Sete Gibernau

  Class, Racing, Unforgettable Moments

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• I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Smile, Kids, Autumn

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• Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.

  Daley Thompson

  Doctors, Years, Long

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• Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree . . . when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Country, Men, Degrees

  Marcus Aurelius (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)”, p.42, Delphi Classics

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• Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor.

  Brian Tracy

  Successful, People, Decision

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• As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon. How many juries will convict us when we are caught in these acts of beneficent citizenship?

  David Ogilvy

  Passion, Dark, Moon

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• The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.

  Karl Popper

  Games, One Day, Principles

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.32, Routledge

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• You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, Bed, Want

  "Fox411 QA: Morgan Freeman on why he believes he is God and which successful film he hated making". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. July 06, 2012.

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• The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct.... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing.... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell

  Girl, Children, School

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• It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemorial subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Women, Reality

  Kate Millett (2016). “Sexual Politics”, p.363, Columbia University Press

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• You have to decide when it is time to move on. I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring and I was dancing with younger dancers.

  Wendy Whelan

  Moving, Years, Dancing

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• the little street
  Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy.

  Laurence Binyon

  Shy, Littles, Streets

  Laurence Binyon (1927). “A Laurence Binyon Anthology”

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• Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

  Susan B. Anthony

  Salary, Dollars, Wages

  Susan B. Anthony, Ida H. Harper (2017). “HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 2: The Trailblazing Documentation on Women’s Enfranchisement in USA, Great Britain & Other Parts of the World (With Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)”, p.485, e-artnow

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• At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.

  Herman Melville

  Eating, Banquets, Crave

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.298

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• The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Retirement, Virginia, Office

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• I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

  Betty Ford

  Golf, Swimming, Empty Life

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• I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.

  Wilkie Collins

  Father, Garden, Hands

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.3350, Delphi Classics

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• Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them, yet without hiding itself from their sight, and in retiring draws them on. At every moment they think they are about to grasp it; it escapes at every moment from their hold. They are near enough to see its charms, but too far off to enjoy them; and before they have fully tasted its delights they die.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Thinking, Sight

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.494, Regnery Publishing

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• You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.

  Cory Booker

  Dream, Children, Giving

  "Cory Booker Speech Text: Read The Democratic Convention Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Events, May, Showers

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• Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, great player, world class player, the English Zizou.

  Samir Nasri

  Player, Class, World

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• I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.

  Bette Midler

  War, Thinking, Two

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• Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.

  Horace Mann

  Rooms, Be Careful, Careful

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• When I do retire, I know for a fact that I'll never be able to replace the incredible feeling I get when I'm driving an F1 car.

  Jenson Button

  Car, Feelings, Able

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