Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only partly responsible, leave, realize your reputation has been damaged, maybe permanently. ”

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence. ”

Authenticity does matter, but only as it serves the novel's more traditional literary demands: that the fault lines be drawn where the internal life and the larger world meet. ”

We learn that our lives find narrative form neither in the tired, familiar slogans of our captains nor in the symmetries of ideological camps, but in the differences that thrive behind settled, more clear-cut divisions. ”

The lives of the young are so tumultuous. ”

Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading humiliation. ”

I haven't reported in grand detail on rituals of American life, road journeys or malls or the death of steel-manufacturing towns. I think this is because I feel a degree of alienation that I cannot combat. ”

A lot of my fighting qualities I inherited from my parents. They set tremendous examples right through my life. ”

I don't have anything in particular to achieve; I don't want to go any particular direction. I just want to take up the challenges of life as we go along. ”

I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India. ”