#resignation

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

— Alberto Fujimori

#formal #i #mr #president #republic

The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded. ↗

— Frederick William Borden

#health #resignation #rumor #state #unfounded

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#bear #better #curse #denounce #freedom

What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#resignation #love

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#poems #poetry #resignation #innocence

Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath. ↗

— Kohta Hirano

#anime #giving-up #hellsing #humanity #immortality

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

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

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

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

— Gustav Heinemann

#hope #insecurity #mingle #order #resignation