Retired Quotes - Page 6

• Since I retired to Cold Mountain I've lived by eating mountain fruits What is there to worry about? Life passes according to karma The months pass like a flowing stream Days and nights like sparks from flint Heaven and earth endlessly change While I sit happily among these cliffs

  Hanshan

  Karma, Night, Worry

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• Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Style, Expansion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.310, Harvard University Press

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• I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

  Jacky Ickx

  Distance, Years, Long

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• I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.

  Alan Jackson

  Thinking, People, Touring

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

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• My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do.

  Kiri Te Kanawa

  Trying, Energy, Said

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• Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.

  Grace Napolitano

  Security Systems, Community, Important

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• The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that.

  Chance the Rapper

  Basketball, Sports, Rap

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• I never think I am successful. If I am successful, then I should be retired. If I am not retired, then that means I should still be working hard, keeping the company running.

  Terry Gou

  Running, Mean, Successful

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• Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

  Felix Dennis

  Earning, Wealth, Form

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• A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Funny, Jobs, Farewell

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 21, 2000.

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• When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.

  Allen West

  Military, Party, Views

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• Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.

  Tom Robbins

  Land, People, Waiting

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• I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.

  Agatha Christie

  Vegetables, Wish, Pity

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie: Five Complete Murder Mysteries”, Avenel

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• I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Habit

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

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• I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.

  David Walliams

  Gentleman, Knows, Traits

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

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• I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region.

  Maurice Strong

  Numbers, Roles, China

  "Maurice Strong on climate 'conspiracy', Bilberberg and population control" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs.

  J. K. Rowling

  Teacher, Order, Years

  "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

  Charles Kuralt

  Romantic Love, Would Be, Looks

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• When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

  Michael Jordan

  Appreciation, People, Embarrassing

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• Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.

  Michael Jordan

  Numbers, League, Needs

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• I was sort of retired, you could say. During that process, I was recording here and there. I put out several songs expressing myself to the fans and letting them know of my whereabouts and what I was doing. I gave them insight into my situation. To my surprise, the fans have been very supporting and understanding.

  Tony Sunshine

  Song, Understanding, Here And There

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Appreciation

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• After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them. I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a man's body. What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?" I felt pleased again. He was now questioning me. "What?" "That No is a better word than Yes," he replied.

  Flann O'Brien

  Men, Thinking, Errors

  Flann O’Brien (2010). “The Third Policeman (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)”, p.37, HarperCollins UK

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• Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.

  Flann O'Brien

  Book, Eye, Expression

  Flann O'Brien (2000). “At Swim-two-birds”, p.5, Penguin UK

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• If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language.... This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors...who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

  Robertson Davies

  Country, Book, Doctors

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