I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Simplemente, hazte a la idea, me digo. En este caso, pensar no sirve de nada. Nada de todo esto está en tus… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I am now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first request for my resignation. I look forward to many more. — Richard Darman Copy Share Image
Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
“Still, there was a bored sadness to her. And a resignation I’d seen on faces my whole life—people giving up, crossing over… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“I took a heavenly ride through our silence I knew the moment had arrived For killing the past and coming back to… — Pink Floyd Copy Share Image
A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the… — Llewelyn Powys Copy Share Image
Giordino...simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community. We are proud… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
... The wise in all ages... have tried to learn one thing only, and that was resignation to the Will of God.… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about… — Nan Hayworth Copy Share Image
There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating… — Nichelle Nichols Copy Share Image
If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation. — John H. Vincent Copy Share Image
I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“wearily distasteful resignation: it seemed easier to attend the wedding than to bother explaining her absence afterwards.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage. — Pericles Copy Share Image
Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart? — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am. — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“She submitted to his embrace with the resignation of a person who has already planned to take away something enormous, and so… — Jennifer duBois Copy Share Image
Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
“… behind which the panting dog drooped like a dropped chamois. It was too hot to smoke, but he smoked his pipe… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
My soul was not only brought into harmony with itself and with God, but with God's providence. In the exercise of faith… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
In the Army, I grew up with this view that you're asked to do anything that is illegal or immoral or unethical,… — Mark Esper Copy Share Image
The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor… — George Washington Copy Share Image