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 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
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
“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
“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
Faith never knows where it is being led, it knows and loves the One Who is leading. Faith is not resignation to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
“You don't understand their mentality. They won't accept your resignation because they don't think you have the right to quit. They are… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Every morning I called Aeroflot to ask about my suitcase. "Oh, it's you," sighed the clerk. "Yes, I have your request right… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
On each side of the war against war, hopes soar, hopes dive, hour by hour now. Resignations abound, timetables slip, and the… — Margo Kingston 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
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
The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them. — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
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
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
I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to… — Franz Grillparzer 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
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
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 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
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
“Careers increasingly come with a reboot button, and companies that realize this early possess a competitive talent advantage” — Gyan Nagpal Copy Share Image
The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Resignation is to equate with the hope to give up; a possible renewal process is initiated, which do things clean at its… — sir kristian goldmund aumann 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
Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath. — Anonymous 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
Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Someone's always calling for my resignation. It's nothing new. It's something that's been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last… — Alan Chambers 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
If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Indifference pretends to create peace, but it is based on not caring, a silent resignation. It is a movement away, a separation… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Only one thing is necessary in your anguish: bear everything with resignation to the Divine Will; for this will help you to… — Gerard Majella Copy Share Image
