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I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more.
— Richard Darman
The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them.
— Martin O'Malley
I will not resign because my resignation will not resolve anything.
— Thaksin Shinawatra
Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.
— John Dryden
Resignation is just simply out of the question ...
— John Podesta
If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.
— David Livingstone
Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!
— Anne Rice
In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.
— John H. Vincent
Stay passed out, that's the right dope. There ain't any cool willow trees- except you grow your own in a bottle.
— Eugene O'Neill
I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.
— Jane Austen
Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.
— Samuel Johnson
What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.
— Tony Blair
I've made peace with myself.
Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.
Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting. — Joe Abercrombie
Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.
Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting. — Joe Abercrombie
Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.
— Thiruvalluvar
By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.
— Honore De Balzac
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
— W. Somerset Maugham
Sergei doesn't yearn for love ... he thirsts for domination, and now he has finally achieved it.
— Melika Dannese Lux
It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.
— Samuel Beckett
You say to me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But wherefore would you have in the morning your pride and in the evening your resignation?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.
— Caitlin Thomas
The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
— Pierre Salinger
I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.
— Seanan McGuire
Resignation brings its own reward
— Daphne Du Maurier
They ... who await
No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate. — Matthew Arnold
No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate. — Matthew Arnold
I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.
— Alberto Fujimori
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
— Salmon P. Chase
Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?
— Jane Austen
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
— Alexandre Vinet
A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
As far as we could tell, the face of the revolution was a sea of embroidering women, patiently waiting the resignation of their repressive governor.
— Diana Denham
The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation.
— C.S. Lewis
Make sense who may. I switch off.
— Samuel Beckett
As life hits us head-on we can respond with resentment, resignation, acceptance, or welcome. We are the living examples of our responses.
— Billy Graham
One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to look
vertically upwards — Oche Otorkpa
vertically upwards — Oche Otorkpa
Darkness enveloped us again, and for the first time in years, I welcomed it.
— Melika Dannese Lux
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
— Groucho Marx
It's a sense more of resignation than of acceptance, of entrapment rather than freedom, of being stuck rather than moving forward.
— Russ Harris
Don't give in to the forces of mediocrity that pull so many people into the ranks of disengagement and resignation. Be fearless Be bold.
— Timi Nadela
Resignation is a daily suicide.
— Honore De Balzac
I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.
— D.H. Lawrence
All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness,
Like resignation to the end, Always the end. — Gotye
Like resignation to the end, Always the end. — Gotye
That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.
— Kohta Hirano
What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Resignation is to equate with the hope to give up; a possible renewal process is initiated, which do things clean at its roots.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
— Gustav Heinemann
A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.
— David R. Brower
Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
— Groucho Marx
Wearily distasteful resignation: it seemed easier to attend the wedding than to bother explaining her absence afterwards.
— Ayn Rand
I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
— Richard M. Nixon
I wait with sullen resignation, said Tuf, unmoving.
— George R R Martin
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
— Miguel De Unamuno
He had no choice. None at all. His kind rarely did.
His shoulders slumped in resignation. He hung his head. His will, his pride, gone. — Evangeline Collins
His shoulders slumped in resignation. He hung his head. His will, his pride, gone. — Evangeline Collins
Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
— Jorge Luis Borges
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
— Sophie Swetchine
Since turning in his resignation, he'd been wondering what he might do next. Suddenly his path seemed clear. He would become an alcoholic. He
— Richard Russo
A sorrowful indifference to existence often pressed on me
a despairing resignation to reach betimes the end of all things earthly — Charlotte Bronte
a despairing resignation to reach betimes the end of all things earthly — Charlotte Bronte
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
— Bertrand Russell
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
— Michael J. Fox
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life. — Pink Floyd
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life. — Pink Floyd
My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.
— Vince Cable
To put it succinctly: description without prescription is the germ of resignation, and prescription without description is mere whim.
— Reza Negarestani
He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.
— Seneca The Younger
O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee.
— Francois Fenelon
Resignation is the better part of wisdom.
— Philip Zaleski
I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
— Eduard Shevardnadze
The extinction of all reality is a concept no resignation can encompass. Until annihilation comes. And all grand ideas are seen for what they are.
— Cormac McCarthy
A man must take the fat with the lean.
— Charles Dickens
She is resigned, with that resignation resembling indifference as death resembles sleep.
— Victor Hugo
Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.
— George P. Bush
The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.
— Frederick William Borden
For I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value is our estimation.
— Jane Austen
While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
— Oliver Goldsmith
It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.
— Jonathan Swift
Was it she who saved me from the silent death that characterizes resignation to solitude?
— Elie Wiesel