Quotes About Resignation

The most singularly significant bond between Cincinnatus and Washington is Washington's resignation of the military commission at the end of the Revolution. As a military leader, Washington fought the entire conflict under the assumptions of only two formal pledges: to resign as soon as independence was won and to receive no compensation for his efforts.394

I guess this means we're uck-fayed, don't it Mikee?

Good-bye—if you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. —AMBROSE BIERCE

He'd been crazy about her for more years than he cared to admit. Unfortunately, he knew nothing would ever come of it, so he would have to settle for proximity and hope that like a mold or a fungus, he would eventually grow on her.

Daylight had not brought a solution, but it had accorded indifference. Having

In response to the IPCC's decision to let the exaggerators write the Summary for Policymakers, Tol resigned. "I simply thought it was incredible," he said. "I told Chris Field, the chairman, about this, and I quietly withdrew.

ludzie nie sprzymierzyli siÄ™ przeciw mnie, staÅ'o siÄ™ jedynie to, ?e nic siÄ™ nie staÅ'o, tylko moja od poczÄ…tku ograniczona przynale?no?? do Å›wiata stopniowo staÅ'a siÄ™ zerowa, a? w koÅ"cu nic ju? nie mogÅ'o powstrzyma? mojego dalszego staczania siÄ™ po równi pochyÅ'ej

the truth is that men were simply giving up the ghost.

Et voilà comment une civilisation meurt… une civilisation meurt juste par lassitude, par dégoût d'elle-même…

Je suis bien dégoûté de ma vie, bien las de moi, mais de là à mener une autre existence il y a loin !

In May 2000 I resigned from the South African Police Service and joined a private investigation company. I felt that I had paid my dues and that it was time to invest in my own future.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

Pero el secreto! Vivir sin conocer el secreto del pasado... No saber quién fue, qué fue lo que fue... Resignarse así a ignorar... No tener la solución...

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

Não escolhi nada nem estou em situação de escolher. Agarro o que passa e quando consigo: são as coisas que vem ter comigo e não eu que vou ter com elas. [sobre a triste circunstância de uma personagem que tem poucas oportunidades na vida]

Turns out I was wrong. Truth is I just couldn't do it any more.

Well, if that's me dinner, I've had it.

What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.

You people work together to make sure nothing ever changes. Sho ga nai. Sho ga nai. That's all I ever hear.

He felt an overwhelming sense of brokenness in the people. The country had been under the colonial government for over two decades, and no one could see an end in sight. It felt like everyone had given up.

Sho ga nai, sho ga nai. How many times had he heard these words? It cannot be helped. His mother had apparently hated that expression, and suddenly he understood her rage against this cultural resignation that violated her beliefs and wishes.

It was perfectly me: pleasant enough, and then receding from immediate concern.

I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it.

Our bleak reality was now apparent: we couldn't leave and we couldn't change partners.