Retiring Quotes - Page 6

• I always had the old-school model that I'm going to work for as long as I'm relevant and focus on for-profit activities and someday when I retire I'm going to learn about philanthropy.

  Marc Andreessen

  School, Long, Focus

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• Marriage is like retiring as a bachelor and getting a sexual pension. You don't have to work for the sex any more, but you only get 65% as much.

  Aristotle

  Sex, Funny Marriage, Bachelors

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• I can't swim at the level I used to. I had to retire because of an injury to my shoulder.

  Scott Speedman

  Swim, Levels, Injury

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was fortunate enough to win a Super Bowl before retiring, and in fact I retired immediately after winning the Super Bowl. I went out on top, and intend to come out of the Guinness Pro Challenge on top, too.

  Jerome Bettis

  Winning, Challenges, Facts

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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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• 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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• Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

  Jean Paul

  Men, Literature, Firsts

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• Once I retire, I'm retiring. I'm done.

  Michael Phelps

  Retirement, Funny Retirement, Done

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• I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now.

  Regis Philbin

  Retirement, Moving, Thinking

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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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• I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven

  Jacoby Jones

  Ravens, Want, Baltimore

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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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• 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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• Photography is not something you retire from.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Photography

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• We were really helped when President Ronald Reagan came in. I remember non-commissioned officers who were going to retire and they re-enlisted because they believed in President Reagan. That's the kind of President Ronald Reagan was. He helped our country win the Cold War. He put it behind us in a way no one ever believed would be possible. He was truly a great American leader. And those of us in the Armed Forces loved him, respected him, and tremendously admired him for his great leadership.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, War, Winning

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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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