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  • I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today's vote on Brexit has no constitutional legitimacy.

    Party   Leader   Today  
    " Labour MPs prepare for leadership contest after Corbyn loses confidence vote" by Anushka Asthana, Rajeev Syal, Jessica Elgot, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2016.
  • The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

    Walden ch. 1 (1854)
  • I don't have any intention of resigning.

    "Holder rejects resignation call at heated Senate hearing" By Dana Bash, Terry Frieden, Tom Cohen, www.cnn.com. June 12, 2012.
  • ... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

    Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.259, The Floating Press
  • We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

    W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”
  • Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

    Exercise   Men   Sight  
    Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.87, Prestwick House Inc
  • On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

  • It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness - temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 297), 1895.
  • It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.

    Taken   Mean   Ambition  
  • Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

    Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1118, e-artnow
  • True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord.

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

    Sad   Men   Despair  
    Walden ch. 1 (1854)
  • I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

    Nature   Tree   Way  
    O Pioneers! pt. 2, ch. 8 (1913)
  • No one ever won a game by resigning.

  • It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

    White   People   Focus  
    "Ain't I a Woman?". Book by Gloria Jean Watkins, 1981.
  • Different people feel differently about resigning

    Bobby Fischer (2012). “My 60 Memorable Games: chess tactics, chess strategies with Bobby Fischer”, Pavilion Books
  • If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.

    Anger   Player   Games  
  • Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so - as if she had been gradually getting to know him for over nine years and then, bang, he was known. She'd been handed her diploma. There were no more surprises - or only this last surprise, that there were no more surprises. To torture herself, Irina kept looking, and looking, at Lawrence's face, like turning the key in an ignition several times before resigning herself that the battery was dead.

    Compassion   Keys   Doors  
  • 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.

  • We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.

    Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.55, University of Virginia Press
  • Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions.

    Country   War   Favors  
    Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.101, Broadway Books
  • We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.

    Hands   Law   Reform  
  • Everyone’s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don’t know if I’m just giving up with this conclusion or resigning myself — or maybe for the first time connecting with reality. How do we know the pain or another’s earlier years, let alone all that he drags with him since along the way at best a lot of leeway is needed for the other — yet how much is unhealthy for one to bear. I think to love bravely is the best and accept — as much as one can bear.

    Marilyn's personal diaries (1958), as quoted in "Fragments" by Stanley Buchthal and Bernard Comment, 2010.
  • I have impeached myself by resigning.

  • Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning?

    Jinx   Awful   Hello  
  • I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.

  • As a 29 year veteran of the US Army/Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel and having served as a U.S. diplomat for 16 years and resigning in 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war, I firmly believe war does not resolve political issues. We must work diligently to force the governments of our nations to use diplomacy, not weapons.

    War   Believe   Army  
  • I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.

  • When we teach kids to follow the rules that there’s only one right answer & to avoid mistakes at all costs, we’re resigning them to average.

    Mistake   Kids   Average  
    Twitter post from May 07, 2012
  • I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

    Funny   Life   Happiness  
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