![The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-application-requisite-to-the-duties-of-the-office-i-hold-governor-of-virgini.jpg)
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retirement jobs children
At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security. Ruben Hinojosa
retirement plans
A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse. Ron Chernow
retirement years squad
The more I hung out with detective squads, the more there was always one guy or two guys or a woman who had a case that they were the primary on years ago, it was never solved, and they take that case into their retirements. Richard Price
retirement asking pay
We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share. Robert Reich
retirement writing college
Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the living world. The seed of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public. Argumentation may be taught in colleges, and theories formed in retirement; but the artifice of embellishment and the powers of attraction can be gained only by a general converse. Samuel Johnson
retirement rocks lasts
We'll rock till we drop. We have all agreed this won't be the last time. Everyone's rocking. Ronnie Wood
retirement government desire
The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt. William Vickrey
retirement home self
Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts as if its central political goal is to become the worlds most comfortable retirement home. Too set in its ways, it fears multicultural diversity Zbigniew Brzezinski
retirement voice vanity
There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction. Walter Scott
virginia littles towns
I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border. Lee Majors
virginia woolf
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee
virginia firsts stranger
A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts. Robert Hurt
virginia rich planters
Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends. Stephen Ambrose
virginia four four-seasons
I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons. Jason Mraz
virginia done west
Because I'm Irish, I've always done an accent. Not doing an accent is off-putting because I sound like me. I love doing an accent. Doing the accent from West Virginia was great, and we had to get specific with it. Eve Hewson
virginia week virginia-tech
There are so many things going on this week, ... It's great for Virginia Tech. Frank Beamer
virginia firefighter honor
In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way. Ginger Baker
virginia bridges white
They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia. George C. Wallace
office phone
He used my office to make phone calls, Dave Miller
office van
Lasers are very much like computers. They don't like to get bounced around. And a rental laser is in a van going from doctor's office to doctor's office every day.
office president answers
Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something. Richard M. Nixon
office six nine
I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office. Wallace Stevens
office president actors
I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor. Warren Beatty
office brooms my-own
Get me a broom. I'll sweep my own office. Wernher von Braun
office astronaut share
One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure. Sally Ride
office political one-day
To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should just get a notice in mail one day and be like, I'm Secretary of State next month! Wanda Sykes
office the-end-of-the-day sitting
At the end of the day, there's not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn't be honored to have as a sitting member of Congress. Steve Womack