Quotes About Resignation

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

I'll break my staff,Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,And, deeper than did ever plummet sound,I'll drown my book.

Things without all remedyShould be without regard: what's done is done.

I have liv'd long enough: my way of lifeIs fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf;And that which should accompany old age,As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,I must not look to have; but, in their stead,Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath,Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.

People who stand near the water in the darkness are either lovers or poets. Or else ... one of that great gray number who've simply had it -- who throw in their hand and won't play anymore.

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

You have to stop worrying about things like that. The disappearances are beyond our control. They have nothing to do with us. We're all going to die anyway, someday, so what's the difference? We simply have to leave things to fate.

That's the reason why I chose to spend my last years here and die in my house on the seashore. A man who looks at the sea turns his back on the misfortunes of the world. Somehow, he resigns himself to them.

Tu ferais quoi, Ach, si tu étais le bon Dieu? - J'suis pas le bon Dieu. - D'accord, mais admettons. Tu ferais quoi? - Que veux-tu que je fasse? - C'est pour ça que je te le demande. (...) - M'est avis qu'il a claqué la porte il y a des lustres. - C'est à dire? - Ben, il veut plus entendre parler de nos foutaises. (...) Forcément, il jette l'éponge.

So many things that might have been," Edgar said. "My life – I'm afraid – will be recorded as a series of things that are, and better things that might have been. My heart is sore, and I have never felt so weary.

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition

it's rapidly becoming clear that the so-called best years of my life are never going to happen

And Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away

And so the condemned man, presented with his final meal, is reminded that at least the cheesecake is delicious.

Leeds United had won but I didn't care. I had lost.

The right to resign is one of the cherished privileges of a free man; the willingness to resign, when principle and the public interest are served, is always present in the public-spirited and the self-respecting. They look upon resigning, not as a cowardice and quitting and a personal disaster, but as the ultimate guarantee of their useful influence and of their personal dignity. - Walter Lippmann

You see more people walking now. With children, dogs. We always wave from our front porch and think if they just keep on walking that direction, pretty soon they'll find themselves out on the prairie. Think of that. An aerial view of all these kind, goodhearted, small-town people, kids in tow and dogs on leashes, walking across the prairie in a kind of trance, a kind of resignation.

And no one cares. You kick and scream and cry out into the darkness, and no answer comes. You rage against the unfathomable injustice and two blocks away some guy watches a baseball game and scratches his balls.

that proverbial moment in which you realize your nausea is going to turn into a puke and that there is nothing to be done about it.