Quotes of Relinquishment - somelinesforyou

“ Responsible choice involves consequences, not the least of which are relinquishments all along our way. ”

- Marsha Sinetar

“ A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ As one (federal Center for Medicaid and Medicare) official told me... getting approval of a Medicaid waiver without the governors support would be challenging, but not impossible. ”

- Greg Moore

“ Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul — and that's resignation. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ Renunciation of the fruit of work is better than meditation. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ 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

“ Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation, none. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind… ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow — or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends. ”

- Unknown

“ Accountability is essential. So the question for me is, what did Secretary Rumsfeld and others in the Pentagon know, when did they know it and what did they do about it?... If the answers are unsatisfactory, resignations should be sought. ”

- Joe Biden

“ It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs. ”

- Roger Maris

“ Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!! ”

- Unknown

“ Fear is a habit; so is self-pity, defeat, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation. You can eliminate all of these negative habits with two simple resolves: I can!! and I will!! ”

- Unknown

“ It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ Resignation is the timid sign of courage. ”

- William Somerset Maugham

“ Renunciation of thinking is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy. - Out of My Life and Thoughts. ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine. ”

- Owen Meredith

“ The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. ”

- Alvin Toffler

“ You want to find out a mode of renunciation that will be an escape from pain. I tell you again, there is no such escape possible except by perverting or mutilating one's nature. ”

- George Eliot

“ Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Knowledge is better than mere ritualistic practice. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ I declare the resignation of the government of the Russian Federation. ”

- Boris Yeltsin

“ It is a shame that when we have a good dream we are asleep at the time. ”

- P.K. Shaw

“ I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. ”

- John Mortimer

“ His resignation is the right thing for the country and for the people of the Gulf Coast states. ”

- Nancy Pelosi
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