#resign

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil. ↗

— William Godwin

#appear #bound #calls #case #deprive

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

— Graham Greene

#life #resigned #us

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

#college #dropped #enough #go #high

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

— Gustav Heinemann

#hope #insecurity #mingle #order #resignation

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

#awful #because #cancer #case #certainty

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

#because #bored #boring #call #days

I don't have any intention of resigning. ↗

— Eric Holder

#i #intention #resigning

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

#born to be #devoured #eaten #eighty #flies

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. ↗

— William Alexander

#courage #die #earth #fall #forget

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#conflicting #emotions #even #had #his