Dear Quote by Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could…

— Henry David Thoreau

I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to…

— Anonymous

It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

— Thomas a Kempis

Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should…

— Sophie Swetchine

True resignation, which always brings with it the confidence that unchangeable goodness will make even the disappointment of our hopes, and the contradictions of…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could…

— Henry David Thoreau

With my resignation, I... left unfulfilled commitments I made to many comrades in the fight, commitments I hold sacred. My service did not end…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

I don't have any intention to resign.

— Roy Hodgson

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

— George Eliot

All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."

— W. H. Auden

I don't have any intention of resigning.

— Eric Holder

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a…

— Elizabeth I