#resigned

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'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

My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen. ↗

— Michael Strahan

#championship #fact #fame #giant #go

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#cover #exposed #going #government #i

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#coach #i #knew #never #resigned

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#artist #express #first #man #men

Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date. ↗

— Cilla Black

#been #blind #celebrating #changing #channel

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#civil #intellectual #more #reading #resigned

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ↗

— Willa Cather

#because #i #like #live #more

Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#ever #fact #i #i can #know