Occasion Of Retirement Quotes & Sayings

when she asked where Miss Mavis might be answered that he hadn't the least idea. I sat with my friend at her particular request: she told me she knew that if I didn't Mrs. Peck and Mrs. Gotch would make their approach, so that I must act as a watch-dog. She was flurried and fatigued with her migration, and I think that Grace Mavis's choosing this occasion for retirement suggested to her a little that she had been made a fool of. She remarked that the girl's not being there showed her for the barbarian she only could be, and that she herself was really very good so to have put herself out; her charge was a mere bore: that was the end of it. I could see that my companion's advent — Henry James

I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue. — Michael Shannon

The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity ... out of discord, harmony ... and out of difficulty, opportunity. — Albert Einstein

The reason the Democrats are so intent on passing a stem-cell bill is they're depending on the research to grow themselves a spine. — Will Durst

If the two women feared that the coming of this date [their retirement] might give some clue to their ages, it was not an occasion for embarrassment because nobody else had been in the least interested, both of them having long ago reached ages beyond any kind of speculation. — Barbara Pym

But are not some whole that we must make sick? — William Shakespeare

The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important. — Stephen Covey

Professionals use their powers for good and write code that others can understand. — Robert C. Martin

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money. — Gertrude Stein