Famous Retirement Speech Quotes & Sayings

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been. — John Greenleaf Whittier

I tried to get a hold of Clive and calm him down. No luck. He was neutered, but he was still a boy, and he wanted what was on the other side of that wall. — Alice Clayton

There's nothing life can throw at us that God can't use to draw us nearer to him. — Kyle Idleman

I've matured. I have a much higher tolerance for boredom. — Tom Perrotta

I used to be really pretty," I whispered, sharing the secret. "See? I used - "
"There is no 'used' to be." He snatched the frame out of my hand, and my mouth dropped open as he tossed it. The photo whizzed through the air, bouncing off a cushion and landing harmlessly on the couch. "You're really fucking pretty now. — J. Lynn

He loved her so much that it almost took his breath away. — Gaston Leroux

The master is not the one who teaches; it's the one who suddenly learns. — Joao Guimaraes Rosa

It was a woman, naked and not long dead. Her staring eyes still showed traces of kohl; her teeth gleamed faintly through half-parted lips. He tried to judge her as he had judged the women whose compliance he had secured for coins, to weigh her breasts with his eyes and applaud or condemn the roundness of her belly; he discovered that he could not do so, that in the way he sought to see her she was beyond his sight, unreachable as the unborn, unreachable as his mother had been when he had once, as a boy, happened upon her bathing. Eata's — Gene Wolfe

My goal was never to get re-elected. — Scott McCallum