#resign

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#been #before #body #completed #effective

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#down #i #impeached #myself #resigning

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#bandits #day #each #foresee #himself

La verdad, es que en el fondo soy un fatalista. Si a uno le llega la hora, da lo mismo un Boeing que la puntual maceta que se derrumba sobre uno desde un séptimo piso ↗

— Mario Benedetti

#fatalism #resignation #death

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. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#am #authority #bbc #british #chairman

I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#better #better man #go #going #hard

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

— Graham Greene

#life #resigned #us

I don't have any intention of resigning. ↗

— Eric Holder

#i #intention #resigning

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

— Elia Kazan

#american #communists #faithful #i #resigned

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