Quotes About Resignation

Resignation is a habit, and it is contagious. It

Those years, from 1945 to 1950, had been confusing, with Kim Il-sung, the Red Army major, in the North, and Syngman Rhee, the American protégé, in the South. Cold War politics knows no bounds, and the people had no say in its dreadful consequences. Resignation is a habit, and it is contagious

The only chance of life lies in giving up all hope of it

I've become passive. I don't invent, I don't yearn. I manage, I cope.

She so cheerfully resigned to his neglecting her that he could not help opening his mouth to protest

There was a line from The Lady in the Lake I could have quoted him: "Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men." When Jake recognized that he had failed to live up to his responsibility to uphold that law, he had resigned. He had had the honor and the courage to step away. Not every man had that in him; I thought probably very few men did.

Solo en un tiempo todavía distante, quizás la racionalidad logre controlar los sentimientos más delirantes, y la loca ansia de inmortalidad personal dará paso a una resignación serena, a una sabiduría epicúrea, solo preocupada por la breve vida en este mundo y el disfrute de los momentos de alegría y de goce que las propias acciones y la suerte brinden.

Being an adult--was this it? Doing the thing you most in your life didn't want to do, and doing it with a shrug?

Yet one long-term resident of Peru, a Belgian priest, disagreed: 'what such terrible conditions generated, usually and spontaneously, in the people that suffered them was not rebelliousness, but rather fatalism, passivity, or religious resignation…the explosions of violence could only be understood if given social conditions came together with an ideology that deliberately and consciously proposed exercising violence as a response'.2

No insistas en tu cita con la muerte, es una cita que ninguno podemos esquivar pero no debemos provocarle

Idiots. The world was populated with idiots. She'd long since learned the truth of that, along with the depressing fact that there was very little she could do about it.

Anthony Bridgerton hatte schon immer gewusst, dass er jung sterben würde.

I have made the very difficult decision to leave my position as head coach of the men's basketball team at Indiana University.

When a company makes a fundamental change, it is inevitable that some people will leave.

There was this saying in GCHQ that, if you didn't leave after five years, you stay there for life. It was always my intention to leave before five years.

howling on the tile bathroom floor. Sunrise bleeding in her white dress waited just behind Jacaranda's next drink. Her next drink would always be waiting for her, languishing away.

Acceptance is a far better word and denotes a more positive attitude than resignation; I've always known that, but in recent days I've found one which is better still; it is consent.

Come on, make it easy, say I never mattered

Watching the developments from afar was both an exercise of academic speculation and resignation to the finitude of one's capabilities; an opportunity to tend to one's neuroses in the privacy of one's secret garden; an acquiescence to impotence and an acknowledgement of the limits of the pen.

YERMA. Yo he venido a estas cuatro paredes para no resignarme. Cuando tenga la cabeza atada con un pañuelo para que no se me abra la boca, y las manos bien amarradas dentro del ataúd, en esa hora me habré resignado. JUAN

Amor de mis entrañas, viva muerte, en vano espero tu palabra escrita y pienso, con la flor que se marchita, que si vivo sin mí quiero perderte.

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

there's one particular class of assessments that should ring warning bells. When someone makes the assessment that there's no action to be taken toward some concern, and no hope of the situation changing in the future, we say that they're stuck in resignation in that domain.

Yo digo que la muerte no es tan terrible como se cree. Ha de ser como un sueño sin sueños, del cual simplemente no despertamos. Yo no la pienso llamar. Pero cuando llegue y llame a mi puerta, con gusto le abro.