Quotes About Resignation

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

If you want peace of mind I suggest you resign as general manager of the universe.

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

Lately, I've become sort of a fatalist. Well, that was bound to happen.

Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!

I have impeached myself by resigning.

It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.

Perhaps I lost sight of my dreams when I became an adult and resigned myself to acting the way adults were supposed to act.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

He's also able to accept death. He's not happy about it, but he's perfectly calm. When I stop all this treatment, it will be because it's time to stop.

When you come from Des Moines you either accept the fact without question and settle down with a girl called Bobbie and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever or you spend your adolescence moaning at length about what a dump it is and how you can't wait to get out and then you settle down with a local girl named Bobbie and get a job in the Firestone factory and live there forever and ever.

Whatever their many vices, wrote Shushtari, the English welcomed and rewarded talent: 'the English have no arbitrary dismissal,' he noted, 'and every competent person keeps his job until he writes his own request for retirement or resignation. More remarkable still is

There was no point in looking again. He [Cork] knew that. No point except to feed the coldness inside him. In a strange way, that was exactly what he wanted now. He wanted to feed himself to the cold until the cold had consumed him and he didn't care anymore.

And here might be the moment to squirt one perfect tear, all bittersweet and shimmering with dreamy resignation. Except that as the serpent once sunned its coils in Eden, patiently awaiting the opportunity to let the biggest cat in eternity out of the sturdiest bag, so a pack of Camel cigarettes stands in these wings, waiting to come on and do its most unexpected stuff.

Don't shoot, Colonel, I'll come down: I know I'm a gone coon.

Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

Christmas was over. It had passed, as usual, in a fever of generosities, and left an aftertaste of swindle in its wake. "Anticippointment" Pamela said . . . and there was in that invented word all the regret and resignation that forty-seven years of Christmases had built up in her.

I feel surpris'd at my own composure," he noted, "and am more disposed to impute it to despair than resignation.

I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.

... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God. By doing this, they have reached a stage at which they could see from God's point of view.

But, God knows best, I concluded.