Resigned Quotes
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For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
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More Resigned Quotes
If I had resigned on my own accord, to whom would I have transferred the reigns of power?
mengistu haile mariam— As quoted in "Mengistu blames Meles for helping Eritrea at UN to split Ethiopia: Mengistu Haile-Mariam speaks", in Jimma Times (30 July 2010)
I can't stand Willy wet-leg,can't stand him at any price.He's resigned, and when you hit himhe lets you hit him twice.
d. h. lawrence— Willy Wet Leg (1929)
Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat our ear. This doth put us still in mind That our flesh must be resigned, And, a general silence made, The world be muffled in a shade. [Orpheus' lute, as poets tell, Was but moral of this bell, And the captive soul was she, Which they called Eurydice, Rescued by our holy groan, A loud echo to this tone.]
james shirley— James Shirley, The Passing Bell.
If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance to the expanding heteronomy, even if only as thought’s powerless attempt to remain its own master and to convict of untruth, by their own criteria, both a fabricated mythology and a conniving, resigned acquiescence.
theodor adorno— “Why still philosophy?” Critical Models (1998), p. 10
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Sibert Cather— 1913 O Pioneers!, pt.2, ch.8.
If some of my former colleagues are to be believed, I must be the first minister in history to have resigned because he was in full agreement with government policy.
Baron Howe— 1990 Personal statement on his resignation, House of Commons,13 Nov.
If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!
muhammad ali— Comment prior to the "Rumble in the Jungle" (30 October 1974) as documented in When We Were Kings (1996)
My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.
edward bulwer-lytton— Chapter 1. This is the origin of the phrase "pursuit of the almighty dollar". Washington Irving coined the expression almighty dollar itself.
No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail to his good pleasure. If we put ourselves in such a frame of mind, then, whatever may happen to us, we shall never feel miserable or accuse God falsely because of our lot.
john calvin— Page 44 (Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life)
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
willa cather— Part II, Ch. 8
Be content and resigned to God's will.
thomas "stonewall" jackson— Robert E. Lee, in a letter to his wife (8 May 1861)
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets literature decay than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.
ezra pound— p. 33 (ABC of Reading (1934))
Reading ... is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges Universal History of Infamy [Historia universal de la infamia] (1935) Preface
Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they had done. "Of all my daughters, you are certainly the least bothered by scruples of conscience," Abbé Chevance used to say.... Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled.
Georges Bernanos— p.88 (La joie (Joy) 1929)
I would not say that they were happy. They knew what was going to happen to them. Of course, they were told what was going to happen to them, and they were resigned to their fate, and that is the strange thing about these people in the East.
paul blobel— Quoted in "The Eichmann Kommandos" - Page 162 - by Michael Angelo Musmanno - 1961
Reading ... is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
jorge luis borges— Universal History of Infamy [Historia universal de la infamia] (1935) Preface
For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
thomas gray— St. 22. (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750))
Would you like to play With the thought of a friend In a distant passing stage While you lie around With your hands up and out So resigned you will fall down.
dave matthews— The Song That Jane Likes
It is as a composer that his name will live longest. He was the last of the colourful Russian masters of the late 19th cent[ury], with their characteristic gift for long and broad melodies imbued with a resigned melancholy which is never long absent.
sergei rachmaninoff— Michael Kennedy The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, 3rd edn. (London: Oxford University Press, 1980) p. 516.
According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.
leo strauss— p. 4 (Natural Right and History (1953))
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, in Robert Andrews The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations, Penguin UK, 30 October 2003, p.1473
Devout yet cheerful, active yet resigned.
samuel rogers— Samuel Rogers, Pleasures of Memory.
If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!
— Comment prior to the "Rumble in the Jungle" (30 October 1974) as documented in When We Were Kings (1996)
If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court,… the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor is there, in this view, any assault upon the court, or the judges. It is a duty, from which they may not shrink, to decide cases properly brought before them; and it is no fault of theirs, if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes.
— Abraham Lincoln, first inaugural address (final text; March 4, 1861); in Roy P. Basler, ed. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), vol. 4, p. 268 (1953).
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
— Willa Cather, O Pioneers (1913).
It is as a composer that his name will live longest. He was the last of the colourful Russian masters of the late 19th cent[ury], with their characteristic gift for long and broad melodies imbued with a resigned melancholy which is never long absent.
— Michael Kennedy The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, 3rd edn. (London: Oxford University Press, 1980) p. 516.
With all my devotion to the Union and the feeling and loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make up my mind against my relatives, my children, my home. I have therefore resigned my commission in the Army, and save in defense of my native State with the sincere hope that my poor services may never be used I hope I may never be called on to draw my sword.
— Robert E. Lee of Virginia, Colonel, U.S. Army, on resigning his commission (1861). He was soon appointed to the Virginia Militia and later headed the Confederate Army.
I dropped my pen; and listened to the wind That sang of trees uptorn and vessels tost; A midnight harmony and wholly lost To the general sense of men by chains confined Of business, care, or pleasure, or resigned To timely sleep.
— William Wordsworth, sonnet composed while the author was engaged in writing a tract occasioned by the Convention of Cintra.
