#resign

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

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#bounds #cannot #guardian #hear #our

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#account #claim #enables #enemy #essence

Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#attic #being #being content #content #contented

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#going #happen #i #me #myself

While they're in WWE, we absolutely have a health and wellness policy. I'll probably always say 'we,' even though I've resigned as the CEO. It's kind of hard to break a 30-year habit. ↗

— Linda McMahon

#always #break #ceo #even #habit

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#grace #learn #resign #you

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#achieve #arrested #become #come #fail

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#ask #been #book #different #different world

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think. ↗

— Jane Rule

#because #been #clothes #could #i