Insignificance Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Insignificance Inspirational Inspirational retirement One way Retirement Retiring Way
I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that. — Michael Moritz Copy Share Image
Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
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Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it. — Gene Perret Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact… — William Thomas Copy Share Image
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all.… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
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