Retirement Goodbyes Quotes & Sayings

I was a knight," Andrea said. "I'm not just going to start shooting every dickhead who mouths off to me."
"Just making sure."
"Besides, if I shot him, I'd do it so nobody could trace it back to me. I'd shoot him somewhere remote, his head would explode like a melon, and they would never find his body. He would just vanish. — Ilona Andrews

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. — Mahatma Gandhi

I made what must have been about a sixty-point turn and eventually managed to squeeze out of the small and crowded car park at the rear — Andy McNab

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science? — Ada Lovelace

We were strong separately, but when we were together, we were impenetrable. — Tijan

Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up. — Thomas Aquinas

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent. — Samuel Adams