Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shower are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and increasing its fragrance.

Alan Jackson

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

Al Pacino

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.

Chris Christie

I don't disagree with ending Congress' retirement program. I'm a governor, I don't have a retirement program in my state, and I don't disagree with that.

Chris Christie

One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.

Chipper Jones

While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!

Diane Watson

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.

In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom.

The one thing you have to have is patience, ... You just can't rush everything. I use myself as an example. The last couple of years have been great, but it took some time to get up to that point.

The one thing we had to play for now is a winning record. To be able to rally like we have the last couple of days and ensure us a winning record, it's pretty good.

The other tobacco, if we were to get a couple of days' rain it could become pretty good.

Until a couple of years ago, if you were in a wheelchair, you weren't expected to work,

We've accomplished a lot. Twenty-two and two is a good start but we're going to have to finish the deal. The deal takes place over the next couple of weeks.

We usually have to kick a couple people out at 1:30 when the house closes.

We started slowly last year too. We started 0-3 in the section last year, but we know it's a long season. You aren't going to win anything the first couple weeks. You've got to stay at it and be persistent and work your way through it with steady improvement and that's what we've done.

We started slow and were missing a couple players in the first four games. Finally, we got it together the last few games, and with all the practice, it's starting to click.

Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.

Carol Leifer

I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan.

David Hillery

There are plenty of opportunities for minorities on campus, you've just got to take them.

Adam Smith

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

Cristina Saralegui

How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.

Henry David Thoreau

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

George Orwell

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

George Bernard Shaw

The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

Freeman Dyson

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.