#resign

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

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#forethought #grave #man #minded #never

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#haven #held #i #i am #president

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#going #happen #i #me #myself

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#got #mean #means #resignation #something

I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them. ↗

— Mike McCready

#contract #course #decided #epic #fulfillment

I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The future was resignation, fatality, and could only end one way now. The present was numbness, that could feel nothing. Like Novocaine needled into your heart. What was there in all the dimensions of time for me? ("Life Is Weird Sometimes" first chapter of unpublished novel THE LOSER) ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#life #numb #numbness #past-future #resignation

We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. ↗

— Graham Greene

#life #resignation #death

So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox... ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#cycles #despair #emotion #fear #free-will

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