A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced… — Gustav Stresemann 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
“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 can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. — W. Somerset Maugham 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
This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run backward. Yet, he felt there… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, And sees,… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that… — Bertrand Russell 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 mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“And that's the last chapter of the history of the world: in which we create, through the workings of the imagination, a… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump now thinks it's time for Jeff Sessions to resign. There was a reporting that suggested that when Trump… — John Heilemann 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
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
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
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
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. — Alfred de Vigny 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
“wearily distasteful resignation: it seemed easier to attend the wedding than to bother explaining her absence afterwards.” — Ayn Rand 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
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
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate… — Dean Koontz 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
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
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
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
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
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
