Waiting is directed at nothing: any object that could gratify it would only efface it. Still, it is not confined to one… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Chaka Fattah already lost the seat in a Democratic primary. So, he's on his way out. And he formally resigned this week. — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
I have resigned from the professional undertaking of coin flipping. I am not here to tell you where gold's going to be.… — Hugh Hendry Copy Share Image
How innocent were these Trees, that in Mist-green May, blown by a prospering breeze, Stood garlanded and gay; Who now in sundown… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
I think the Republicans and conservatives generally were alienated by America's unsuccessful effort in Vietnam, and a lot of them, as Henry… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
In 1984, Jean Vanier invited me me to visit L'Arche community in Trosly, France. He didn't say "We need a priest" or… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in… — Edmund Fuller Copy Share Image
Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
It is so much easier sometimes to sit down and be resigned than to rise up and be indignant. — Ella Winter Copy Share Image
I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. — Jean-Francois de La Harpe Copy Share Image
I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned. — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
On June 19, 1981, a vigorously healthy Justice Potter Stewart resigned from the Supreme Court at the age of 66. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office, of which… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
