Quotes About Resignation

la cosa ya no tiene remedio y debemos olvidarla.

And yet, my dear Estela, in the end one accepts the will of God, resigns oneself, and discovers that, even with all its calvaries, life is full of beautiful things.

Por este camino podemos deslizarnos hacía un mundo sin ciudadanos, de espectadores, un mundo que, aunque tenga las formas democráticas, habrá llegado a ser aquella sociedad letárgica, de hombres y mujeres resignados, que todas las dictaduras aspiran a implantar.

Van a morir muchos pero no hay que llorar, la muerte es dicha para el buen creyente.

Martyrdom is something a Christian resigns himself to, not an end he seeks out.

I suggest you resolve yourself to your fate

Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.

Maybe George was fooling himself. Maybe old people always fooled themselves, pretending that the world was going to hell because it was easier than admitting they were being left behind, that the future was pulling away from the beach and they were standing on their little island bidding it good riddance, knowing in their hearts that there was nothing left for them to do but sit around on the shingle waiting for the big disease to come out of the undergrowth.

But you reached a stage where you realized it was a waste of energy trying to change your parents' minds about anything, ever.

Under 'Reasons for Leaving Last Job', never give the real reason, unless it's money or ambition.

I watched the poor sheep's eyes – a look I'd see again and again in the dying – as the animal registered its imminent death, that terrible unforgettable second when, either from exhaustion or disgust, it seemed to decide finally to give up and die. It was a haunting look, a look that says, You were – all of you – a terrible disappointment. The eyes closed slowly, as if the animal were going to sleep, almost willfully. I had my fresh lamb.

How happy could he be if it were only possible for him to go away, and become even a curate in a parish, without his wife! Would there ever come to him a time of freedom? Would she ever die? He was older than she, and of course he would die first. Would it not be a fine thing if he could die at once, and thus escape from his misery?

You millionnaires always talk of Christian resignation, because you never are called on to resign anything.

But from the point of view of Catholic Emancipation, it was Pitt's resignation which was the important, inexorable fact. This was the monarch who had agreed to the rights of the French Canadians to their own religion, and was the genuine personal friend of Lord Petre and Thomas Weld. What had happened? The answer was in two parts. Partly he had been preyed on for political reasons by members of his court opposed to Pitt.

ON 12 JANUARY 1829, a week before Anglesey's tragic, tearful and triumphant departure from Ireland, the Home Secretary, Robert Peel, wrote a long letter to Wellington. He told him that if his resignation would be an 'insuperable obstacle' to Emancipation, he would stay.

Peel now wrote to the Dean of Christ Church (his old college) to tell him that he intended to bring in a bill in favour of Emancipation and offering his resignation if it was required.

Gerstenfeld somt eerst enkele redenen op waarom het leven in het algemeen niet de moeite waard is geleefd te worden, mensen zijn wolven op twee benen, en gaat dan in op zijn eigen situatie, die niet bijzonder dramatisch is maar die hij kennelijk toch voor uitzichtloos houdt: lusteloosheid en weerzin spelen hem parten.

I've found it's harder for the family of the patient to accept what's happening. In most cases—not all—the dying person has accepted his fate.

I´m tired, Natalie told herself sadly, and was quiet

No; it is over for me. It is too much, she thought, I will relinquish my possession of this self of mine, abdicate, give over willingly what I never wanted at all; whatever it wants of me it can have.

The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away—until you're blue in the face, and you won't be any the wiser. What's that you say? Philosophizing is like chewing straw? My very words!

My mother, bless her, had your number when she said, "Don't hold your breath waiting for him, because nothing good comes from a graveyard.

Cockney girl who was already beneath his tastes. He quit

Cette impuissance physique se traduit par une timidité plus générale: elle ne croit pas á une force qu'elle n'a pas expérimentée dans son corps; elle n'ose pas entreprendrem se révolter, inventer: vouée à la docilité, à la résignation, elle ne peut qu'accepter dans la société une place toute faite.