#resignation

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#forget #resignation #russian #soul #you

I never got to see a proper striptease. Not anything even remotely close. I was stupid and went to literary cafés and spent my time on artistic nonsense instead. Now it is too late. I am old and blind. I must content myself with hearing the garments fall. I dictated this. ↗

— Tor Ulven

#resignation #wasted-youth #humor

I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#mercenary #resignation #inner-peace

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one. ↗

— David R. Brower

#club #deal #finally #forced #great

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#century #conflicts #depression #disgraced #dozen

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

— Gustav Heinemann

#hope #insecurity #mingle #order #resignation

I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#formal #i #mr #president #republic

My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#discouragement #giving-up #grief #hopelessness #resignation

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

— David Blunkett

#i #minister #prime #prime minister #regret

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am. ↗

— Vince Cable

#alienated #am #brink #i #i am