Resigned Quotes

• I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

  Willa Cather

  Nature, Tree, Way

  O Pioneers! pt. 2, ch. 8 (1913)

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• In 1984, Jean Vanier invited me me to visit L'Arche community in Trosly, France. He didn't say "We need a priest" or "We could use you." He said, "Maybe our community can offer you a home." I visited several times, then resigned from Harvard and went to live with the community for a year. I loved it! I didn't have much to do. I wasn't pastor or anything. I was just a friend of the Community.

  Henri Nouwen

  Home, Years, Community

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• It is so much easier sometimes to sit down and be resigned than to rise up and be indignant.

  Ella Winter

  Acceptance, Down And, Sometimes

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

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Guilt, Wells, Unfortunate

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: The Original Story”, p.183, Lettere Animate Editore

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• 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

  America, Stories, Metamorphosis

  "The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, p. 1473, October 30, 2003.

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

  Jim Broadbent

  Fans, Sad Day

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• When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

  Tom Conti

  Girl, Air, Faults

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

  Alexander Dubcek

  Expecting, Worst, Happens

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• Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

  Samuel Dash

  Unique, Play, President

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• Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Order, Color, Years

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.9, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.

  Lance Armstrong

  Children, Cancer, Bravery

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• When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

  Scott Ritter

  Government, Issues, Going Out

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• John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John’s work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete, and his departure will not affect any current projects. We are fortunate to have a brilliant group of programmers at id who worked with John and will carry on id’s tradition of making great games with cutting-edge technology. As colleagues of John for many years, we wish him well.

  Tim Willits

  Cutting, Technology, Years

  "Doom Creator John Carmack Officially Leaves id Software". Interview with Mitch Dyer, www.ign.com. November 22, 2013.

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• I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Heart, Heavenly, Hard

  Edna St. Vincent Millay, Frances Schoonmaker (1999). “Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.30, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

  Elia Kazan

  Thinking, Years, Faithful

  Elia Kazan, Michel Ciment (1973). “Kazan on Kazan [interviews with] Michel Ciment”, Secker & Warburg : British Film Institute

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• Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Suffering, Weakness

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• Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Two, Agitation, Exhausted

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.

  B. C. Forbes

  Perseverance, Order, Gumption

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• I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

  Jane Rule

  Thinking, Ideas, Clothes

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• I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, Love Is, Thinking

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date.

  Cilla Black

  Years, Albums, Documentaries

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• That we ought to give ourselves up to GOD, with regard both to things temporal and spiritual, and seek our satisfaction only in the fulfilling of His will, whether He lead us by suffering or by consolation, for all would be equal to a soul truly resigned

  Brother Lawrence

  Spiritual, Giving, Soul

  Brother Lawrence (2007). “The Practice of the Presence of God: The Original 17th Century Letters and Conversations of Brother Lawrence”, p.12, Xulon Press

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• I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Party, Government, Germany

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• We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.

  Marcel Proust

  Love Is, Thinking, Suffering

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.1981, Jester House Publishing

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• All life includes loss. It's taken me many, many years to learn to deal with that, and I don't expect I'll ever be fully resigned to it. But that doesn't mean we have to turn away from the world, or stop striving for the best that we can do and be. We owe that much to ourselves, at least, and we deserve whatever measure of good may come of it.

  Ken Grimwood

  Taken, Mean, Loss

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