#resign

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race. ↗

— Fred Allen

#could #fee #get #human #human race

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

#artist #express #first #man #men

That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today. ↗

— David Blunkett

#i #minister #prime #prime minister #regret

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#desk #die #man #may #mine

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#civil #intellectual #more #reading #resigned

Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity. ↗

— Michael Jeffery

#atrocity #collectively #evening #evening news #feeling

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job. ↗

— Elena Kagan

#conscience #i #i think #job #leave

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

#council #demand #hungarian #king #ministers

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

#although #before #calling #colors #commission

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#accepting #away #comes #complexes #contrary