(263 quotes found)
“What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member”
Groucho Marx
“Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.”
Dr. Paul Tournier
“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“When asked, "If you had been in President Clinton's place would you have resigned?" Armey's reply:"If I had been in the president's place I would not have gotten the chance to resign. I would have been lying in a pool of my own blood, looking up, and listening to my wife ask, 'How do you reload this son of a bitch'?"”
Dick Armey
“Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. ”
William Alexander
“Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any Whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God”
Adam Smith
“Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.”
Erma Bombeck
“Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.”
Ignazio Silone
“I have impeached myself by resigning.”
Richard M. Nixon
