Resigned Quotes

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 others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Hope, Future, Enemy

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

Life, Nothing, Tell

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
Saint Augustine

Cannot, Hear, Angel

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 to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mean, Living, Move

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

Again, Knew, Texas

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

Live, Seem, Trees

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.
Christopher Hitchens

Time, Live, Long

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.
Christopher Hitchens

Stupid, Boring, Bored

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, a man among men.
Charles Baudelaire

Men, Artist, Order

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.
Hugo Chavez

President, Prisoner, Resign

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Jorge Luis Borges

Writing, Reading, Activity

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
Bob Woodward

History, War, After

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
Graham Greene

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

Thinking, After, American

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.
David Wilkerson

Fear, Greatest, Happen

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.
Dave Grohl

Smart, School, Rock

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
Ann Plato

Life, Education, Good

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?
Mitch McConnell

Government, Country, Liberty

Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.
Jarvis Cocker

Age, Yourself, Past

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

Ideas, Perhaps, Clothes

Mitt Romney has never been resigned to what someone else said was possible. He cut his own path. That's why he believes in his heart that America has a future full of opportunity and hope. And that's why when Mitt Romney looks down the road, he sees a country that's ready for a comeback.
Mitch McConnell

Hope, Future, Heart

Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job.
Azar Nafisi

Job, Last, Academic

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.
Amitabh Bachchan

Politics, Play, Either

My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.
Michael Strahan

Work, Win, Happen

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, Put, Off

Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors.
Lajos Kossuth

President, King, Demand

It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline.
David Limbaugh

Forward, America, Accept

They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.
George Woodcock

Decision, Through, Understand

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

Life, Great, Sad

I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
Patrick Rothfuss

Cool, Famous, Mean

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