"Sorry, but retirement offends me. You don’t just……" — Stephen Colbert
"Sorry, but retirement offends me. You don’t just stop fighting in the middle of a war because your legs hurt. So why do you get to stop working in the middle of your life just because your prostate hurts? That’s desertion."
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321 Quotes by Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert has 321 quotes on this site.
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Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn tasty!
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Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. What?s wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today?…
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Make no mistake - they're coming for our guns. And we freedom-loving gun lovers are totally defenseless! Other than, you…
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Nothing reassures parents more than surrounding their kids with the kind of guys who have a lot of weapons and…
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Yes, Dr. King is pro-gun just as surely as Jesus would be pro-nails.
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If it's called the USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday?
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I welcome opposing viewpoints, but I should warn you that you'll be facing off against the 2nd-place finisher at the…
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Al Gore has a hit movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth.' I have an inconvenient truth for him: you're still not…
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First, [in high school], I smoked a lot of pot...and that's how I got to know the people 'half in'…
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If Jesus doesn't have a sense of humor, I am in huge trouble.
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I must confess that I've never trusted the Web. I've always seen it as a coward's tool. Where does it…
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More Desertion Quotes
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one of 22 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion,…
— Samuel Butler
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The Lord Jesus died for the ungodly. He was obedient at all costs : He bore everything, and went down…
— John Nelson Darby
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And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and…
— J P Donleavy
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The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in…
— Mother Teresa
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink…
— Samuel Beckett
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To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his…
— Unknown Author
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It was always the same; other people gave up loving before she did. They got spoilt, or else they went…
— Emile Zola
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be…
— Lysander Spooner
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When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to…
— Rebecca Solnit
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The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence,…
— David McCullough
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