Resignation quotes

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◆ If Heaven decides to rain or your mother to remarry, there is no way to stop either.

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◆ What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

- W Somerset Maugham99

◆ I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation

- William Somerset Maugham99

◆ Resignation is putting God between ourselves and our troubles

- Anne Sophie Swetchine99

◆ Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow

- Alexandre Vinet99

◆ Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability

- Sam Keen99

◆ The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women.

- Bertrand Russell99

◆ Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

- Victoria Woodhull99

◆ We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

- W Somerset Maugham99

◆ The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

- Huey Newton99

◆ Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

- Joseph Conrad99

◆ All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

- Noam Chomsky99

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

- Salmon P Chase99

◆ Resignation is the timid sign of courage

- James Joyce99

◆ Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the evitable.

- Natalie Clifford Barney99