We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old. — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve. — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Mario Ruiz Massieu's resignation places the ball very firmly in Zedillo's court. A key decision he will have to make is whether… — Denise Dresser Copy Share Image
It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my… — Coco Chanel 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
“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
To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after… — Mary Stewart 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
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
We need to convince him that if he makes the decision to go, that we are ready to trade his personal security… — Ilya Ponomarev Copy Share Image
I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it. — Thomas Hartwell Horne Copy Share Image
The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation. — Samuel Florman Copy Share Image
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed… — W. Somerset Maugham 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
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
Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart? — Jane Austen 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
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
I take absolutely no delight in the resignation of Sir Tim Hunt from his role as an honorary professor at the University… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
“Throughout the whole absurd life I'd lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few;… — Thomas Jefferson 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