A Quote by Yoko Ono

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

Yoko Ono

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Yoko Ono
American - Artist
Born: February 18, 1933

Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.

Daniel Boone

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

Emile M. Cioran

The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.'

Ted Cruz

The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture where people will not let you retire. You can say, 'Alright, I'm going to hang up my guitar,' but people will still not let you retire.

Kirk Hammett

People say, 'Oh, so you should retire.' Yeah, you want me to retire so you won't get knocked out. I won't retire.

Vitor Belfort

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

Alfred Eisenstaedt

A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.

J. William Fulbright

Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

Rick Warren

When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.

Karl Marx

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

Norman Cousins

When I was 7 years old and my father [Pablo Escobar] tells me "my profession is that of a bandido (a bandit) that is what I do" - these are the words he tells me after the assassination of the Minister of Justice ordered by my father himself in 1984 - it's very difficult to react to that when you are only 7 years old because you don't realize the significance of the word bandido.

Juan Pablo Escobar

I decided that I would defy expectations, be it those put on me by society, race, socioeconomic status, or my father.

Michael Tubbs

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.

John McCain

Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles up so they don't look atrophied as a 60-year-old, I don't disparage people who want to maintain their appearance. But what I don't want is a society that tells me I have to.

Faye Wattleton

Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, the contradiction between classes and the contradiction between the old and the new; it is the development of these contradictions that pushes society forward and gives the impetu6 for the suppression of the old society by the new.

Mao Zedong

Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.

Alan Furst

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