Resigned Quotes

123 quotes by 112 authors

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious,… — Charles Baudelaire
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. — Jorge Luis Borges
I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign. — Hugo Chavez
Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I… — Ulysses S. Grant
Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul, to taste, without… — Paul of the Cross
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. — Willa Cather
Acceptance doesn't mean that you've resigned yourself to live the rest of your life with a particular person, or in a particular situation. It just… — Ken Keyes Jr.
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. — Ignazio Silone
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,… — Hugh Miller
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time,… — Virginia Woolf
With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make… — Robert E. Lee
I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his… — Alexander Kotov
To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I… — Peter Gabriel
[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the… — Abraham Lincoln
If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind! — Muhammad Ali
To be resigned when ills betide, Patient when favours are deni'd, And pleas'd with favours given,- Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part; This is that… — Nathaniel Cotton
Do the best that can be done and then . . . be resigned. — Robert Green Ingersoll

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