#resignation

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

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. ↗

— Adam Smith

#cheerfulness #christian #course #david #dyed

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

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

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 can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#conduct #frame #humorous #i #i can

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#others #our #own #resignation #suffering

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow. ↗

— Alexandre Vinet

#courage #resignation #sorrow