Quotes by Tenure If you must leave your job after three months - and I recommend staying a year unless you're totally miserable - then downplay the short tenure both in your resume and in interviews. Alexandra Levit tenure miserable The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all. Charles Dudley Warner tenure reputation uncertain It was the purest love without purpose other than love itself. Without tenure or jealousy. Luis Sepúlveda tenure purpose I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure. Nathaniel Hawthorne tenure political office I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago. Nick Offerman tenure jail chicago Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated. Wendell Phillips tenure republic I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure. Francis Fukuyama professor rid get tenure