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retirement solitude world
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
retirement women flower
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.
retirement long albums
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. Alan Jackson
retirement thinking insecurity
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. Al Pacino
retirement program congress
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
retirement years careers
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.
retirement happy-life golfers
While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer! Chipper Jones
retirement party history
The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of the monks, who faithfully served him as guards, as secretaries, and as messengers; but the importance of maintaining a more intimate connection with the catholic party tempted him, whenever the diligence of the pursuit was abated, to emerge from the desert, to introduce himself into Alexandria, and to trust his person to the discretion of his friends and adherents. Edward Gibbon
retirement self denial
I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects. David Brainerd
work quality may
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work. Alan Watts
work play able
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. Al Kaline
work office employment
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office. Dean Acheson
work may helping
Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded. David Riesman
work artist class
The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.
work trying stuff
I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out. David Duval
workout fun powerful
When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence. Arnold Schwarzenegger
workout gone regimes
I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing. Ben Whishaw
work-ethic ethics talent
I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won. Arnold Palmer
parent religion indifferent
The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid. Charles Dickens
parent pious
My parents are deeply pious Hindus. Akhil Sharma
parent one-day fool
Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof . . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown . . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves. Edward Hoagland
parent touchy my-own
My own parents were touchy-feely. Ben Stiller
parent comedian actors
Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
parent baptism slave
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. Arthur Rimbaud
parent dare critics
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. Arna Bontemps
parent knows hard
Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know. Dee Snider
parent literature cradle
Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. Kurt Vonnegut