#signed

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#awful #because #cancer #case #certainty

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

Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#entrusted #everything #given #i #me

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#end #end of the world #enthusiasm #i #lessen

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

I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself to sort of dress it up - it's like using presets in your tracks. ↗

— Sean Booth

#designed #dress #else #getting #hate

Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#artists #come #commercial #commercial success #few

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#calls #constitution #country #declare #designed

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#apollo #gospel #me #records #signed

I signed Koufax for fourteen grand and a hot dog. ↗

— Al Campanis

#fourteen #grand #hot #hot dog #i