"I never use that word, retire."

-- B. B. King

#Use Quotes #Retiring Quotes

“Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.”
“If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.”
“I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.”

Source : Raoul Dufy, Alfred Werner (1970). “Raoul Dufy”, Harry N Abrams Inc
“As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the end my choice is to hop back on or get left in the dust.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, "I will protect another general who protects Communists," is not fit to wear that uniform, general.”

Source : Remark to Gen. Ralph Zwicker during the Army investigations (18 February 1954), as quoted in "A Conspiracy So Immense" by David M. Oshinsky, 2005.
“The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?”
“Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.”
“Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so that you are not a burden to anyone, and indeed can give to others, as St. Paul the Apostle advises (cf. I Thess. 2:9; Eph. 4:28). In this manner you will overcome the demon of listlessness and drive away all the desires suggested by the enemy; for the demon of listlessness takes advantage of idleness. 'Every idle man is full of desires' (Prov. 13:4 LXX).”

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