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I'll dream no more
by mainly mind
Not even in sleep is well resigned.
My midnight orisons said o'er,
I'll turn to rest and dream no more. — Walter Scott

Dodd resigned himself to what he called the delicate work of watching and carefully doing nothing. — Erik Larson

I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do. — John McCain

Happiness is the only thing one should ever be resigned to. — Alfred Capus

It is so much easier sometimes to sit down and be resigned than to rise up and be indignant. — Ella Winter

To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind. — Alec Douglas-Home

He sighs, smiling a resigned little smile. "Waverly, you make me want to die, but it's in the best way. You have no idea. — Brenna Yovanoff

A Michigan school board trustee has resigned after a flippant comment about "shooting" children with food allergies. — Anonymous

Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind,
Obedient passions, and a will resigned — Samuel Johnson

The Collier Street clouds lowered, and How soon is now? resigned itself to B-side status. — Morrissey

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. — Mary Shelley

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign. — Hugo Chavez

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned. — Jim Broadbent

Chaka Fattah already lost the seat in a Democratic primary. So, he's on his way out. And he formally resigned this week. — Christopher Michael Cillizza

When you have resigned yourself to an eternity filled with little else but longing, a few seconds is enough. — Rin Chupeco

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I resigned myself to looking for that face that I clearly recalled - until the day when I couldn't. It happened so suddenly. — Melanie Benjamin

Hello again, I said to death. I was resigned, if not ready. — Rachel Caine

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind. — Muhammad Ali

Do the best that can be done and then ... be resigned. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again. — Darrell Royal

She so cheerfully resigned to his neglecting her that he could not help opening his mouth to protest — Susanna Clarke

On June 19, 1981, a vigorously healthy Justice Potter Stewart resigned from the Supreme Court at the age of 66. — Elliott Abrams

Monday-morning faces: sagging, gaunt, braced, resigned. — Robert Galbraith

Lady Middleton resigned herself ... Contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject, five or six times every day. — Jane Austen

Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance. — Max Lerner

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

You are born into genius but have you resigned yourself to mediocrity ? — Robin S. Sharma

Perhaps I lost sight of my dreams when I became an adult and resigned myself to acting the way adults were supposed to act. — Robin S. Sharma

As her fate, she accepted the world of ice, shining, shimmering, dead; she resigned herself to the triumph of glaciers and the death of the world. — Anna Kavan

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists. — Elia Kazan

I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do.
I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't. — Matthew Quick

If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind! — Muhammad Ali

To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self). — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Reading ... is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it. — Alexander Dubcek

Perfection is a club I resigned from a long time ago. — Robert Collins

I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go. — Gena Showalter

And now that the Fade was upon him, he was resigned to his death. — J.R. Ward

To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves. — J. D. McClatchy

What can we do? It's not dismissive or resigned. He really wants to know. — Ron Suskind

They're very keen on disillusioning young women at British universities, you know, I suppose to make us resigned and grateful later on. — Caleb Crain

Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists. — Allen Wheelis

My wife loves football, but I think she's resigned to the fact that I'll never make it there. — Mario Andretti

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline. — Robertson Davies

windows back home. Very occasionally we saw a sheepish looking tourist step inside their doors, or a resigned looking local, but for the — Scarlett Skyes

Scolding had made an impact. She seemed resigned — Tracy Brogan

In a world in which success was the only virtue, he had resigned himself to failure. — Joseph Heller

I leave my parents here behind
And all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell
I'm gone with love away. — George Moses Horton

No one with a thirst for knowledge goes to the university now. Half of the faculty has resigned, the other half gives courses in advanced ignorance — Douglas Adams

An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect. — Ted Cruz

Nothing to hinder me. But that brief dream is over. I am resigned to my fate now, so I don't think I'll go out for fear I'll get unresigned again. — L.M. Montgomery

My boyfriend? I thought I'd resigned myself to the fact that we weren't going to be together. And now I'm thinking of him as my boyfriend? — Sarina Bowen

I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain. — Felicia Day

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. — John Forbes Nash Jr.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson. — George Eliot

He that serves God is resigned up into him, and in all things has respect to truth and righteousness, and will promote that. — Jakob Bohme

Felix ran his hands through his dark hair, sounding like a resigned maiden aunt. 'It'll all end in tears and coal dust, you see if it doesn't. — Gail Carriger

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. — Ignazio Silone

I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me. — Mary Shelley

The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God. — Saint John Chrysostom

When the subject has refused allegiance and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished. — Henry David Thoreau

He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly — Anne Bronte

Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. — Jean-Francois De La Harpe

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think. — Jane Rule

I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it surprising. — John Dieterich

Well, you wanted me to be a hero in blue, so you better be resigned! Murdering doesn't improve one's manners! — Eugene O'Neill

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. — Graham Greene

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned. — Honore De Balzac

I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. — Gustav Heinemann

They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing. — Paulo Coelho

She is resigned, with that resignation resembling indifference as death resembles sleep. — Victor Hugo

I closed my eyes and resigned myself to the fact that my boyfriend was a pervert. He was lucky he was so cute. — J.M. Colail

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job. — Azar Nafisi

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine