Put a good bunch of grapes under the winepress, and a delicious juice will come out. Under the winepress of the cross,… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise,… — A.S.A. Harrison Copy Share Image
In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It was one of the moments you stay in, to hell with all the troubles of before and after. The sky is… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
On her new LP, Shatter, Jude Johnstone examines heartbreak and loss with such tender resignation that I wept in acknowledgement of its… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
It’s seemed more like a punishment than a reward most days…” he said, his tone one of bitter resignation. Then his gaze… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent… — William James Copy Share Image
From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I could almost see the resignation on the old man’s face. I knew he would draw a breath and sigh that I… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I've known Al Franken for over 20 years. He is my friend. He was on the floor of the Senate announcing his… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
Attorney General John Ashcroft bid farewell to the Justice Department with a goodbye address. The voluntary resignation came as a bit of… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense.… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who can’t imagine it at all. I… — Ingeborg Bachmann Copy Share Image
It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
“If {Death} comes for you?” he said. “Would you be so sanguine then?” She laughed and the pensiveness was gone. “No indeed.… — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
I said if you want me to go back to Afghanistan and work, I'm happy to do that. If you think accepting… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
The story is framed around [avid Petraeus] resignation. So many headlines that followed talked about his ruined career. They completely ignore the… — Paula Broadwell Copy Share Image
True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
I take this pain, Lord Jesus, From Thine own hand; The strength to bear it bravely Thou wilt command. I am too… — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
If I have not decided to step down, it does not mean that I do not want to step down but because… — Suharto Copy Share Image
History has shown us that all the great advances have taken place in Spain when we have evolved and adapted to the… — King Felipe VI Copy Share Image
In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“I never got to see a proper striptease. Not anything even remotely close. I was stupid and went to literary cafés and… — Tor Ulven Copy Share Image
It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Maybe it was because my resignation letter was well written, and this attracted the attention of the factory supervisor. They kept me… — Zhou Qunfei Copy Share Image
Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health,… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in;… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“My knowledge of the dangerous problems that were developing at the Desoto Solar Farm and my following of OSHA law were clearly… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“She gave it a shot' was how she planned to euphemize the five-year detour: to her therapist, to curious friends, to herself.… — Glenn Diaz Copy Share Image
We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic… — William James Copy Share Image
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