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“If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youth—then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion.”

Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings

“To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again”

Trying Years Long Made Soul Age Remember Turns Sleep Silence Air Youth Wings Fingers Resignation Thoughts On Life Clumsy Calculating Drowsy Fledglings Long Silence Long Sleep

Book:Hollow Hills

Source: Hollow Hills

“Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.”

Teach Ugly Unhappiness Resignation

Author:Francoise Sagan

“You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness, Like resignation to the end, Always the end.”

Kind Ends Certain Sadness Resignation

Author:Gotye

“I have... submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the (next) government.”

Government Next Candidates Resignation

Author:Rafik Hariri

“Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.”

Spirit Accepting Acceptance Couple Cost Expectations Good Things Compromise Enthusiasm Supposed To Be Grants Cynicism Serenity Therapists Resignation Unnoticed

Book:The Silent Wife: A Novel

Source: The Silent Wife: A Novel

“Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.”

Order Insecurity Resignation

Author:Gustav Heinemann

“While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.”

World Lasts Past Heaven Resignation Prospects Slopes

Book:Goldsmith's miscellaneous works

Source: Goldsmith's miscellaneous works

“We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one-day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8% and 17.4%.”

“We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of this, show great patience and resignation. For He delays for this reason: that we may offer Him a fitting occasion of honoring us through His divine providence.”

“To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.”

Life Art Shows Gay Live Life Courageous Cheerful Resignation Be Courageous Art Of Living Fatalism Boisterous

Author:Jean de La Fontaine

“There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an ambition to make his mark rather than by any consistent political purpose, and that his attacks on Peel would have not have been so mounted had he been given in 1841 the office for which he had asked.”

Littles Has Beens Political Purpose Given History Doubt Office Ambition Mark Driven Consistent Engineers Resignation British History Disraeli

Author:Christopher Hibbert

“When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.”

Believe Loses Freedom Circumstances Empowerment Victim Settling Yield Resignation Stagnation Determinism Plight Victims Of Circumstance

Author:Stephen Covey

“Upon further reflection, and after meeting with the President of MSNBC, I have tendered my resignation. It is my sincere hope that all of my colleagues, at this special network, will be allowed to focus on the issues that matter without the distraction of myself or my ill-judged comments.”

Matter President Issues Focus Special Reflection Meetings Ill Sincere Comment Distraction Judged Colleagues Resignation

Author:Martin Bashir

“If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!”

Ifs Home Government Term Limits Constitution Bills Clean Congress Refuse Obedience Budgets Balanced Ruling Resignation Term Limits Balanced Budget Purpose Of Government

Author:Rand Paul

“Faith never knows where it is being led, it knows and loves the One Who is leading. Faith is not resignation to a power we do not know; faith is committal to One Whose character we do know because it has been revealed to us in Jesus Christ.”

Knows Has Beens Character Jesus Christ Jesus Christ And Love Resignation

Author:Oswald Chambers

“Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest elections.”

States Justice Honest Innovation Election Legacy Department Notable Attorney Resignation Eric Pernicious Thursday

Author:Edwin Meese

“Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above.”

Night House Black Half Watches Mines Son Wall Beats Stones Blue Prison Rounds Injustice Stranger Tall Shade Stubborn Palms Resignation Outcast Streaks

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

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

Deals Built Pressure Clubs Remove Disability Resignation

Author:David R. Brower

“At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.”

Ifs Life Choices Taught Surrender Resistance Fifteen Honorable Resignation Caged Caged Birds I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Author:Maya Angelou

“It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.”

I Can Important Pay Responsibility Humility Paid Personal Responsibility Resignation Inevitability Pay It Forward

Author:Maya Angelou

“Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.”

Christian Courage Sorrow Resignation Resigning

Book:Outlines of Theology

Source: Outlines of Theology

“The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.”

Government Past Form Beauty Taken Concepts Active Opposition Cooperation Resignation Forms Of Government Dreamy Times Past

Author:Gustav Stresemann

“Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections”

Government Difficult Election Extraordinary Difficult Times Ukraine Resignation Parliamentary Ukrainian

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.”

Ifs Bears Curse Resignation Advocating

Book:A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom

Source: A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom

“Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them, I spoiled everything; on the contrary, when I praised them for their resignation and sympathized with them in their sufferings; when I told them they were fortunate to have their purgatory in this world, when I kissed their chains, showed compassion for their distress, and expressed sorrow for their misfortune, it was then that they listened to me, gave glory to God, and opened themselves to salvation.”

Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653

“God often delays the conclusion of a holy endeavor so that those involved in it might merit its grace by the length of the work, their patience, and their prayers. This is why I beg you not to grow weary in yours. Although He may delay, He will reveal that it is pleasing to Him, if it is done, nevertheless, in a spirit of resignation regarding the outcome.”

Ifs May Done Might Spirit Faith Grows Prayer Grace Involved Holy Conclusion Merit Outcomes Length Endeavor Nevertheless Weary Delay Resignation

Book:Correspondence, Conferences, Documents

Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents

“Attorney General John Ashcroft bid farewell to the Justice Department with a goodbye address. The voluntary resignation came as a bit of a disappointment to the attorney general, who had hoped to be raptured out of office.”

Bits Justice Office Disappointment Department Goodbye Addresses Farewell Attorney Resignation

Author:Jon Stewart

“Fear is a habit, so is self pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can and I will.”

Inspirational I Can Two Self Fear Simple Habit Despair Anxiety Negative Defeat Pity Resolve Hopelessness Overcoming Fear Resignation Self Pity Anxiety And Fear

Author:Napoleon Hill

“It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations”

Seems Resignation

Author:Kin Hubbard

“The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.”

Mind Growing Calm Compensation Resignation Renounce

Book:The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

“Now, as never before, hundreds of millions of men and women-who had formerly believed that stoic resignation in the face of hunger and disease and darkness was the best one could could do-have come alive with a new sense that the means are at hand with which to make for themselves a better life.”

Men Mean Hands Faces Millions Darkness Alive Disease Men And Women Optimism Hunger Better Life Resignation Stoic

Author:John F. Kennedy

“A man must take the fat with the lean.”

Men Fats Resignation

Author:Charles Dickens

“I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.”

Men Made Suffering Selfish Petty Small Things Suspicious Resignation Suffering Of Others

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.”

Men Trying Action Moving Window Active Resignation Bash

Author:Gunter Grass

“Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.”

Facts School Science Teach Humility Intimate Bows Insignificant Resignation

Book:Tragic Sense of Life

Source: Tragic Sense of Life

“A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.”

Heaven Despair Essence Angry Calm Resignation Reproach

Author:Alfred de Vigny

“The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.”

Given Plans Engineering Engineers Refusal Resignation

Book:The Existential Pleasures of Engineering

Source: The Existential Pleasures of Engineering

“The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.”

Ifs Writing Records Discovery Letters Instruments Agendas Pens Resignation

Author:Billy Collins

“The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.”

Resignation Turning Points American Life

Author:Pierre Salinger

“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.”

Inspirational Past Spirit Suffering Faith Hope Bears Quiet Patience Storm Resignation Serene Blazing Being Patience

Author:Corazon Aquino

“According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.”

Paper Miserable Papers Resignation

Author:Vince Cable

“There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.”

Should Writing Happens Today Responsibility Accepting Authority Tradition British Ministers Prime Prime Minister Chairman Public Life Organisation Resignation

Author:Gavyn Davies

“While civilization is more than a high material living standard, it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on abject poverty or in an atmosphere of resignation and hopelessness. Therefore the end objectives of solar system exploration are social objectives in the sense that they relate to, or are dictated by, present and future human needs.”

“I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.”

Want Turns Watches Resignation

Author:Richard Jenkins

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