Retir'd Quotes

#1. I have often thought how much happier I should have been if, instead of accepting a command under such Circumstances, I should have taken my musket upon my Shoulder & entered the Ranks or ... had retir'd to the back country & lived in a Wig-wam. - GEORGE WASHINGTON

Joseph J. Ellis

#2. Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; Courteous though coy, and gentle though retir'd; The joy of youth and health her eyes display'd, And ease of heart her every look convey'd.

George Crabbe

#3. In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

Samuel Johnson

#4. In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

John Milton

#5. My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.

Frank Lane

#6. There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Carl Jung

#7. I'm sure you get energy from your audience; it's a high.

Rooney Mara

#8. I think I have something that belongs to you'. I held out my open hand, the stone resting in my palm. I expected her to take it. Instead she took the whole hand, and held it.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#9. Oh, don't mind Humpty. He's inhaled a hell of a lot of super-glue.

Bill Willingham

#10. Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

Chantal Kreviazuk

#11. If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

Steve Kagen

#12. Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Neil Gaiman

#13. Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#14. Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing ...

Ellen Glasgow

#15. Hayley is such a snotty-pants. She's been that way since she started wearing pink lip gloss. Someone should really check the ingredients for that lip gloss because it's having some serious side effects.

Angela Cervantes

#16. A prophet. A shaman. Motivated extraordinarily, thus extraordinarily motivating. Taking the same drugs they took, which he himself provided. Though of course he didn't actually take them. If you fancy resenting the tedious, I recommend intentional communities, particularly those led by charismatics.

William Gibson