Quotes About Resignation

Paul Ryan needs to step down as Speaker of the House.

After two good and interesting years I decided to put an end to my duty at FIFA, mainly to be able to spend more time with my family in Amsterdam.

If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.

... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

But when I tried to meet her eye now, she pointedly looked away, and fixed her red and swollen eyes on the big stained-glass window above the slate. Since (a) it was dark outside and (b) the window depicted Saunt Grod and his research assistants being beaten with rubber hoses in the dungeons of some Praxic Age spy bureau and (c) Tulia had already spent something like a quarter of her life in this room, I reckoned that inspecting the window wasn't really the point.

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

She accepted things because there was nothing else to compare them too.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Fill me in on the details of your life." "I thought you didn't give a shit." "It'll give me something to do while I wait for you to stab me to death.

What had he done to try to save himself? Nothing. He'd done nothing. He'd let fate decide, closing his eyes and giving himself up to the judgment of the universe.

He groaned and dropped into the nearest kitchen chair, pushing his head into his hands. "Death by peanut butter. I never thought I'd go that way.

The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage rather than resignation. In a sense, with the back to the wall and no exit but death or acceptance, the options narrow to one.

he looked like one of those dried-up faces you carve out of an apple in third grade to teach you that time is cruel and we are all just going to shrivel up and die, so there's no point in getting out of bed.

About to be hanged is my status quo, not a condition that requires your repair.

What will be will be.No one can escape fate's design.

The world's a nightmare, my love. I'd like to get off, but they tell me we can't, we're on an express train.

And anyone who nurtures impossible hopes is already a loser. Once you come to realize it, you just give up.

President Beneš resigned, since it was obvious that he could no longer do his country any good, and what was left of the carcass became a dependency of the Nazis. Pilsen was taken over in the very first days, and the great Skoda plant started making war materials for Hitler's next campaign.

If only this mist would clear, it would be a lovely day, she said faintly. And if only the clouds would thicken up it would be a miserable day, Mr. Allen contributed from behind the paper. It is what it is.

Nothing could be avoided, and nothing could be foreseen. What was the point of unnecessary fear?

He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and to transform the grief that contemplates the grave by showing it the grief that looks up to the stars.