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Quotes About Resignation

Querer ganar en el juego sin ninguna carta en la mano, ni buena ni mala. Sin ánimos, tampoco, de ser espectadora. Sin ánimos, ni siquiera eso, de confesarme que me hastían el juego, las cartas, los jugadores y los espectadores.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Desearía abandonar todo esfuerzo. Dejar que vengan y me devoren. En lugar de hacerlo yo.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Arm yourself with resignation. We live in a world full of evil. In the later period of life, misfortunes seem to thicken round us and out duty and our peace both require that we should accustom ourselves to meet disaster with Christian fortitude
~ Alexander Hamilton
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd; Labour and rest, that equal periods keep; Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep.
~ Alexander Pope
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd
~ Alexander Pope
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
~ Alexandre Vinet
Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
~ Stephen Ambrose
I would have loved to have had a farewell match, and would have wanted the DFB to make that offer. But certain people did not plan that for me. I have to accept that.
~ Michael Ballack
I'm not even thinking about going back to play football at all. My mind's made up. I'm done.
~ Keyshawn Johnson
Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.
~ Graham Chapman
The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave.
~ Lexa Doig
Watching talented colleagues walking away from the Cabinet table is never easy.
~ Nicky Morgan
Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.
~ Tony Benn
Fidler himself was a personable young man who'd been a New Labor MP till "the sheer meaningless gab of it" had driven him to resign and spend more time with his money by becoming a TV personality.
~ Reginald Hill
Some day, Archie, I shall be constrained Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but no. I cannot remake the universe, and must therefore put up with this one. What is, is, including you." He
~ Rex Stout
Sal didn't think in Ifs. If led to If only Macey wasn't sick, and even If only Sal's bone marrow was a match. If never did anybody any good at all.
~ Rich Horton
A large segment of the public willingly resigns itself to political passivity in a world in which it cannot expect to make well-founded judgments.
~ Richard Hofstadter
Muttering, "Fuck it," he threw his finger away. It hit the wall. He heard the quiet thunk through the sounds of helicopters. Must
~ Richard Laymon
From that day on he learned to accept the dungeon he existed in, neither seeking to escape with sudden derring-do nor beating his pate bloody on its walls. And, thus resigned, he returned to work.
~ Richard Matheson
If it had been me, I would have done the same thing, remained silent, then died.
~ Richard Matheson
No, most adults are like her father, whose fear, if he feels any, has been replaced by a kind of melancholy.
~ Richard Russo
Lincoln couldn't help wondering if what had happened at Rockers was best viewed as an isolated incident or as part of a long-established pattern, one that could be summed up as Teddy's life not, to borrow Coffin's term, working out . Even back at Minerva, Teddy had seemed resigned to the likelihood that it wouldn't. Which begged a question: Had Teddy meekly accepted what he saw as the invisible trajectory of his life, or had he courageously accepted what he couldn't possibly change?
~ Richard Russo
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