Quotes of: Resigned Keyword

I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.

Jacques Delors

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Bread and Wine

The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.

Frederick William Borden

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

Harold Rosenberg

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Henry David Thoreau

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

W. Somerset Maugham

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

Frankenstein

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

David R. Brower

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

Jim Broadbent

Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.

Arthur Rock

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

Casino Royale

On June 19, 1981, a vigorously healthy Justice Potter Stewart resigned from the Supreme Court at the age of 66.

Elliott Abrams

The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign.

John O'Donohue

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Richard M. Nixon

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

Joseph Conrad

In a democracy, when you get 20 million people in the street, you resign.

Mohamed ElBaradei

I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

Felicia Day

I want to continue to do a good job for my constituents, my party doesn't want me to resign.

Michel Martelly

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Voltaire

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

Eduard Shevardnadze

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.

Darrell Royal