#resign

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and yet ... I thought when I began, and still think, that there was another angle in all those years when she was growing old and older and very old, and Grandfather was matching her year for year, a separate line that did not intersect with hers. They were vertical people, they lived by pride, and it is only by the ocular illusion of perspective that they can be said to have met. But he had not been dead two months when she lay down and died too, and that may indicate that at that absolute vanishing point they did intersect. They had intersected for years, for more than he especially would ever admit. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#intersection #life-lines #love #marriage #married-life

I do a show. It comes on late at night on TV. And if that means I'm a late-night talk show host, then I guess I am, but in every other regard I resign my commission, I don't care for it. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#care #comes #commission #every #guess

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

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

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job. ↗

— Elena Kagan

#conscience #i #i think #job #leave

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#american #communists #faithful #i #resigned

Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors. ↗

— Lajos Kossuth

#council #demand #hungarian #king #ministers

Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#although #before #calling #colors #commission

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#accepting #away #comes #complexes #contrary