Forced Retirement Quotes

#1. Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.

Ben Stiller

#2. Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them.

Gregory Harrison

#3. My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma's retirement building and perform 'Phantom of the Opera.'

Lindy Booth

#4. Nothing, until the ground comes up to meet you, and you land in a jumble of pain and shattered bones; and the scream you didn't think you had in you scrapes your throat raw as you let it out - like the first, shocked breath of a baby newly born into a universe of suffering.

Aliette De Bodard

#5. All that is required to become an optimist is to have the goal and to practice it. The more you rehearse optimistic thoughts, the more 'natural' and 'ingrained' they will become. With time they will be part of you, and you will have made yourself into an altogether different person.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#6. Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings.

Stephen Jay Gould

#7. Huh."
"Huh what?"
"Would you look at this?" he asked, examining a small box. "It says it glows in the dark."
"So?"
"So, what use is that to anybody? I mean, what am I supposed to do? Write her name in
the air with it?

Karen Chance

#8. I don't want to give this impression that I grew up in Liverpool in a cardboard box in abject poverty, but that didn't mean there weren't anxieties in my childhood about money.

Cherie Blair

#9. Though I have tremendous support from lots of people, there are so many others waiting to tear me down.

Misty Copeland

#10. Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman.

Warren Farrell

#11. The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.

Samuel Johnson

#12. It's another post-EU incongruity. Spas are sissy, indulgent, European. Hamams are authentic and Turkish.

Ian McDonald

#13. It's not simply that communists are atheists and want to stamp out religion; it's that they cannot tolerate anyone who worships a King who stands above the kings of this world. For that higher allegiance gives a basis for demanding freedom and rights from the earthly king.49

Charles W. Colson

#14. I try to anticipate exactly where my teammates are going to be. Sometimes I look good. Sometimes I look bad.

Jason Kidd

#15. Sumer had devised the system of structural violence that would prevail in every single agrarian state until the modern period, when agriculture ceased to be the economic basis of civilization.

Karen Armstrong