Pensioner Quotes

#1. Are we going somewhere?" "To the river." "But why?" "To see what we can see." "I really d-don't think . . ." We were going to end up as newspaper headlines: Pensioner and Homosexual Found Dead in River - Coincidence, Tragedy, or Satanic Ritual Gone Wrong?

Alexis Hall

#2. If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.

Tony Blair

#3. Whereas in the old days one acquired eternal happiness by the grace of God, now too often the eternal happiness seems to have become like an aged and infirm pensioner who sustains his life in the house of the rich on the wretched crust of poverty.

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. In the movies, every crazy old fart needs a cool old car. Jack Nicholson drove a spiffy yellow 1970 Dodge Challenger two-door in 'The Bucket List.' In 'Gran Torino,' the cranky pensioner played by Clint Eastwood not only owned a 1972 GT Sport, he also used to build cars like that at the Ford plant.

Richard Corliss

#5. He's a sturdy fellow, bald as a hen's egg, and like all engineers, practical as a pensioner.

Steven Pressfield

#6. Correct or not, he felt himself to be a useless pensioner, an impotent object of charity.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?

Edward Young

#8. A mother comforts, a mother cleans. A mother gives when any reasonable person would deny. Life might affix any number of labels to Vera- Russian, pensioner, widow, daughter- but when she looked to her washed-out reflection in the bathroom mirror, she saw only Lydia's mother.

Anthony Marra

#9. To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back. Individuals who have mortgages, pension funds who had pensioner investments - whoever was ripped off is entitled to get their money back.

Peter Welch

#10. To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!

William Wordsworth

#11. I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in a cardboard box in London, I see that person as a victim of market forces. Everytime I see a pensioner who cannot manage, I know that he is a victim of market forces

Tony Benn

#12. If you can't get a miracle, become one.

Nick Vujicic

#13. There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

Sammy Davis Jr.

#14. A baby is born with two great assets: love and hope.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.

Bruce Sterling

#16. Leave a silence alone, no matter how awkward it felt. Invariably the other person filled it, often with something unexpected.

Kate White

#17. If less was more, she had a great deal.

Louise Penny

#18. I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.

Nadine Gordimer

#19. Trees, it turns out, have a completely different way of communicating: they use scent.

Peter Wohlleben

#20. Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score.

Derwin L. Gray

#21. All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

Terry Pratchett

#22. An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.

Wilfred Trotter