Retiring Quotes

449 Retiring quotes by 394 unique authors

Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from… — Rick Moody
A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If… — Patrick Henry
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before… — William Arthur Ward
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed. — Iris Murdoch
I don’t like being here with these people and animals. I’m going to retire, but remember, courage is doing what we know is dangerous. It’s… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose. — Marcus Aurelius
The end of the story of Batman is he's dead. Because, in the end, the Batman dies. What else am I going to do? Retire… — Neil Gaiman
Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that… — Fernando Pessoa
I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second… — Jamie Ford
It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women… — Candace Bushnell
An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together… — Nikki Gemmell
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly… — Billy Collins
A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god; now you're going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure… — Brent Weeks
I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing. — Andy Rooney
Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness. — Paramahansa Yogananda
You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength. — Wallace Stegner
If I wanted to honor you, I´d let you retire. I am planing to make you run the kingdom and fight the wars while I… — George R. R. Martin
There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go… — Terence McKenna
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. — Samuel Johnson
Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited us… — Jack Anderson
Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire. — Wanda Sykes
As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is… — Aminu Kano
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of… — Alexander Pope
One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire. — John Dewey

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