Quotes About Resignation

Extraordinario —dijo el alcalde—, extraordinario... ¿Y ahora piensa quedarse con nosotros en Riva? —No pienso —dijo el cazador sonriendo, y para atenuar el sarcasmo, puso la mano sobre la rodilla del alcalde—. Estoy aquí, no sé más; no puedo hacer otra cosa. Mi barca carece de timón, viaja con el viento que sopla en las regiones inferiores de la muerte.

That is how things stand today, little likely to cause me any uneasiness.

He smiled and said, "You want me to tell you the way?" "Yes," I said, "because I can't find it myself." "Give up, give up," he said, and turned away abruptly, like someone who wanted to be alone with his laughter.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.

I said in a speech out in Peoria that with Jerry in as vice president, the pressures on Nixon to resign would be unbearable. I know that Republicans see 50 House seats flying out the window in 1974.

Look at me, I'm not worthy of your anger, I'm nothing but a dumb animal who can't prevent the noisy symptoms of his decay, so don't waste your time with me, don't dirty your hands by hitting me, just try to put up with the fact that I exist. I'm not asking you to like me, I know that's impossible, because I'm not likeable, but at least do me the kindness of despising me enough to ignore me

He gave up. He'd been feeling like giving up for a long, long time. I guess it's maturity, they say it always gets you in the end. I don't seem to have any more principles left, so it's got to be maturity... A broken man, I guess that's what you become, the moment you are no longer a kid.

It was this immense resignation to the shape of his life that opened him every day to the experience of joy.

He wasn't meek, but he was in his person deeply resigned to what he did. It was this immense resignation to the shape of his life that opened him every day to the experience of

He was crushed by his enormous resignation, that basic quality that makes it as easy to kill poor bastards in and out of the army as to let them live. Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.

Les choses auxquelles on tenait le plus vous vous décidez un jour à en parler de moins en moins avec effort quand il faut s'y mettre. On en a bien marre de s'écouter toujours causer...on abrège...on renonce...ça dure depuis trente ans qu'on cause...on ne tient plus à avoir raison. L'envie vous lâche de garder la petite place qu'on s'était réservée parmi les plaisirs... on se dégoûte

Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron, the German ambassador to Washington before 1933, the only German diplomat to resign on the Nazi accession to power.

The best for me, perhaps, would be if I could lie down one evening and not wake up again.

I should have liked to produce a good book. It has not turned out that way, but the time is past in which I could improve it.

I try to tell myself I must accept certain private inevitabilities. I will live a life of continual deep fatigue, for example. I will carry in me, like a poison, like a virus, rancor for most things, and while this condition will not improve, nonetheless I will learn to live with my rancor as if it were a minor irritation. There will be many achievable things that I will not do and then there will come a time when I realize they are no longer even achievable.

What did I tell you when you were little girl? The only way we women can get through our lives honorably is with courage and resignation, both. ~168

Não se luta contra o destino; o melhor é deixar que nos pegue pelos cabelos e nos arraste até onde queira alçar-nos ou despenhar-nos.

I descended into physical and moral immobility, and my body became a plant, a stone, mud, nothing at all…

There was no Christian resignation or philosophical acceptance in him. It seemed that misery had calloused his soul to the point of taking away the feeling of the mud.'' The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis

There's nothing like sorrow to get your attention. It is almost as though sorrow pulls presence out of you. In the midst of sorrow there's nothing to do but be there and celebrate the hurt. We celebrate the hurt through holy screams. Holy screams come from the heart. They are screams that people often, in their ignorance, try to smother. Don't let them take your screams away too early. Holy resignation comes only after holy screams.

second lesson of Blink. Too often we are resigned to what happens in the blink of an eye. It doesn't seem like we have much control over whatever bubbles to the surface from our unconscious. But we do, and if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition. We can prevent the people fighting wars or staffing emergency rooms or policing the streets from making mistakes.

He felt rather like someone lying in a bath after all the water has run out, witless, almost dead.

we knew, didn't we, that it would have to end one day? Apparently that day has come and we must accept it.