Retiring Quotes - Page 31

• What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.

  Stanley Bing

  Loyalty, Passion, Dedication

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• I know so many players who say they wouldnt entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.

  Gordon Taylor

  Player, Coaching, Want

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• After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

  Yuichiro Miura

  Men, Years, Bored

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• I'm retiring from competitive running, not from running. You cannot stop running, this is my life.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Running

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• The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.

  Peter Mayle

  Book, Government, Years

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• As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and theyre the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years.

  David Rubenstein

  Country, Baby, Retirement

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• When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.

  Johnny Weissmuller

  Thinking, People, Want

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• I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.

  Dieter Rams

  Thinking, Drawing, Designer

  "Dieter Rams, Designer of Stereos, Shavers and Shelves". Interview with Rima Suqi, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2011.

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• We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.

  Denzel Washington

  Acting, Great Things

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Dream, Country, House

  Source: www.levity.com

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• I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

  Bill Vaughan

  Men, Years, Law

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• Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage,
  Till pitying Nature signs the last release,
  And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

  Samuel Johnson

  Age, Lasts, Lag

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Park (1811). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.27

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• Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.

  Daniel Boone

  Men, White Man, Civilization

  "The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer". Book by John Mack Faragher, p. 302, 1993.

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• All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire

  Grace Slick

  Stupid, Rocks, Age

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• Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.

  Thomas Huxley

  Lying, Snakes, Records

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• If you're going to retire, retire early.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Ifs

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• It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Death, Sight, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.272, Harvard University Press

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• I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Country, Reading

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's.

  Carlos Beltran

  Baseball, Numbers, League

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• I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30

  Robbie Savage

  Family, Football, Careers

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• So, Mr. Chadband-of whom the persecutors say that it is no wonder he should go on for any length of time uttering such abominable nonsense, but that the wonder rather is that he should ever leave off, having once the audacity to begin-retires into private life until he invests a little capital of supper in the oil-trade.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Oil, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.161

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• I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Football, Running, Heart

  Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• If this is the degree of inflation planned for in advance, the real outcome is indeed likely to be such that most of those who will retire at the end of the century will be dependent on the charity of the younger generation. And ultimately not morals but the fact that the young supply the police and the army will decide the issue: concentration camps for the aged unable to maintain themselves are likely to be the fate of an old generation whose income is entirely dependent on coercing the young.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Real, Fate, Army

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Part III. Freedom in the Welfare State, Chap. 19 : Social Security, 1960.

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• The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Book, Way, Gone

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• A true home is one of the most sacred of places. It is a sanctuary into which men flee from the world's perils and alarms. It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary retire to gather new strength for the battle and toils of tomorrow. It is the place where love learns its lessons, where life is schooled into discipline and strength, where character is molded.

  J.R. Miller

  Home, Character, Men

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