Quotes About Resignation

We Irish have a gift for resignation. Or, put another way, fatalism.

I must die; so must I die groaning too?

The divine order does not design people or circumstance according to our tastes

Surrender the body and its members, physical faculties, property, reputation, office, honours, children, siblings – repudiate them all.

Only once before, in the landmark case of Marbury v. Madison, which established the principle of judicial review, had the Court invalidated an act of Congress on constitutional grounds. John McLean of Ohio and Benjamin R. Curtis of Massachusetts dissented; Curtis was so outraged by the decision that he resigned from the bench. Much

If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

It hit you, is all," he said. "What you've given up your

Peter hit him, and that's how he quit his job.

All are stoics in the grave.

Ninguém é sábio por inteiro, mas quem se resignaria a ser totalmente louco?

Sometimes death is just simpler than continuing to fight.

The keystone of slavery in its new guise was the system of convict labor, which entrapped hundreds of thousands of black men in a permanent state of terror and involuntary servitude, and which kept the entire black community in a state of quiet, fearful resignation.

Well, the announcement to say that I was no longer a member of Vampire Weekend was something that was in the works for a long time. I knew that it was the right choice for me.

Imagine somebody says you are going to die in a few weeks; I'd really rather not know.

Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

Not many dictators announce their resignation, but I did because I didn't want to stay on and overstay my welcome.

I still ask myself the same questions every woman asks. Was it my fault? Did I say or do something to make him feel like such an advance was welcome? And like most women, I never told anyone. Instead, I just quit.

I don't believe President Nixon ordered a break-in, but people working for him were doing it. And then that dragged the president in. And then you have the cover-up. And before you know it, the president's gone.

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.

By 2012, my game was shot. You're sitting on your chair watching players' leagues below you play shots you can't. That destroyed me.

If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.