Quotes About Resignation

I kind of like it up here, Kugel said. It's got a certain fatalistic charm, a certain je ne sais fucked.

In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

I have said for a long time that I thought the president would be best served if the attorney general resigned so I think it's the right thing to do.

To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my 'timetable' is too often a 'table' with two legs that won't stand up no matter how much 'time' I give it.

Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view.

She spread her hands over her face, but wearily this time. There were no tears left.

It is as well for him, he said, that he is already dead. He would suffer this night if he were still alive.

What was the point of waiting for a more pleasant post? There was no such thing as pleasure in life for her anymore.

Honey," Bessie's mamma used to say, "politicians and judges and coppers are money-grubbing thieves. They'll screw you, and rob you, and win elections for doing it, but there's no way around them. Smile and pay the sonsabitches off." The

We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.

What if she's dead?" I said. "She'll stay dead," he said. "She'll still be dead come morning.

Justine shook her head mournfully. I do not fear to die, she said; that pang is past. God raises my weakness and gives me courage to endure the worst. I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me. Learn from me, dear lady, to submit in patience to the will of heaven!

Alas! I regret that I am taken from you; and, happy and beloved as I have been, is it not hard to quit you all? But these are not thoughts befitting me; I will endeavor to resign myself cheerfully to death, and will indulge a hope of meeting you in another world.

I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.

Non v'è nulla di più doloroso per l'animo umano di quella calma mortale che segue alla grande agitazione di sensazioni e sentimenti provocata da una rapida successione di eventi, quel misto d'impotenza e rassegnazione che si produce quando al cuore mancano sia la speranza che il timore.

Ah! It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.

No me asusta morir. Ese tormento ya lo he superado. Dios me da fortaleza y me da valor pata soportar lo peor. Dejo un mundo triste y penoso y si usted me recuerda y piensa que he sido condenada injustamente, me resignaré a la suerte que me espera.

Aw, coffee, no.

McChrystal never should have been hired for this job given the outrageous cover-up he participated in after the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman. He was lucky to keep the job after his 'Seven Days in May' stunt in London last year when he openly lobbied and undercut the president on the surge. But with the latest sassing, and the continued Sisyphean nature of the surge he urged, McChrystal should offer his resignation. He should try subordination for a change.

They would return to unwanted jobs, unloved families, unchosen friends, to drawing rooms, evening clothes, cocktail glasses and movies, to unadmitted pain, murdered hope, desire left unreached, left hanging silently over a path on which no step was taken, to days of effort not to think, not to say, to forget and give in and give up.

The houses stood like men in unpressed suits, who had lost the desire to stand straight: