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Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

Henri Frederic Amiel

She did resign from the university. [And] she was charged with a felony on [April 17].

Tom Page

Acknowledge your crisis, resign, ... and let's go to the polls.

Piero Fassino

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau

Despite opposition from several BJP leaders, Joshi decided to resign.

Venkaiah Naidu

I don't like the idea that you have to resign from your post to run (for city council). This rule keeps many of the brightest talents in our city sitting on the sidelines, afraid to give up what they currently have.

Joey Herald

I know for sure that Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin is a very sick person. He must resign because of his poor health.

Alexander Lebed

It is with great regret that I hereby resign my position. I have learned a lot and contribute much of my career to your guidance.

Allen Clark

After a good amount of consideration, discussion with friends and advisers and personal reflection, I have decided it would not further the goals of SGA to heed this call to resign my post as vice-president.

Preston Burnes

I have never seen a more impressive display of heart and desire. I may just have to resign now.

Jason Kerr

You know that it never has been easy/ Whether you do or do not resign/ Whether you travel the breadth of the extremities/ Or stick to some straighter line.

Joni Mitchell

Maoists have also forced civil servants to resign and restricted movement of people.

Sudip Pathak

He will resign from all his business interests and focus full-time on winning the right to govern.

Ken Clarke

I have to resign, ... I've cried for days and days over this. I'm just so frustrated. I just want it all to be done with and get this over with.

Susan Winter

I am to blame. If serving two roles is wrong, I would have to resign from one.

Kanji Kameoka

Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.

Gustave Le Bon

John determined that he should resign after it became clear to him that, although I and a majority of our board members were supportive and encouraging, there would be insufficient support from the heads of the International Association of Machinists and the Air Line Pilots Association for him to succeed me as chairman and chief executive officer.

Gerald Greenwald

If you do something to this degree, then you deserve to face the punishment for it. Resigning is just the easy way out. It may give us a reputation where you can't trust anyone here. You never know what's going on.

Patricia Brown

I resign in Florida. [The comment scared the interviewer and fellow band members into thinking he was leaving the group.]

Nick Carter

Some are saying I should resign, some want me impeached, some say I should go on vacation, ... This is my advice: They are the ones who should go on vacation. They should come here and be with people who don't have land and witness the poverty here.

Joseph Estrada

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Ralph Wilson

What would be nice would be if the mayor would do the right thing and resign, ... If he had any character whatsoever that's what he'd do.

Jerry Davis

I think he would fall under a lot of national and international pressure to resign.

Franco Pavoncello

We were wrong: the government's steering wheel is pointing in the wrong direction. I am resigning.

Almazbek Atambayev

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

Czeslaw Milosz

We have had some people resign from the Help Desk, which has slowed the processing of the computer sale for this month. We have decided to go ahead with the March 20 sale.

Charles Elliott

Given the circumstances surrounding the affair and its likely impact upon my family and my ability to govern, I have decided the right course of action is to resign.

James Mcgreevey

I will not uphold a breach of international law or this undermining of the U.N. and will resign from the government.

Clare Short

He told me he was going to resign last Friday.

Peter Mills

I will absolutely not resign. I've been put here by shareholders to do a job, which I will do.

Gordon Miller

[Did that mean he agreed with Wyman's estimate that up to a quarter of the membership favored making the club coed?] I think it's true, ... Everybody in the club anticipated that it would happen eventually. I heard it discussed. I think a lot of members feel the way Tom did -- but not to resign over.

Wheelock Whitney

He's not an auditor. He was affiliated with them and he's resigning if appointed. We have a board of trustees who can look at this with fresh eyes. I don't have a problem with that.

Walter Timpone

I am writing to inform you that I shall resign my position as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, effective February 28, 2003, ... This decision is a difficult one.

Glenn Hubbard

We ask the central committee to resign immediately and announce an emergency committee for the movement.

Abu Mohammed

Under these circumstances I am left with no alternative but to resign.

Arjuna Ranatunga

I am resigning effective immediately. Bo Derek will become the new vice president.

Andy Borowitz

Employees who have 15 or more years of service will be offered the opportunity of resigning and receiving a check representing their accumulated sick leave.

Tara Kelly

Before resigning from a position, consider whether or not you can improve the situation. ...In many instances, employers are made aware of an employee's dissatisfaction only after that individual resigns.

Max Messmer

I've decided that I will investigate the complaint. If civil servants feel that this is the new standard now, that if they provide information that may be borderline, they might be called upon to resign or be fired as a result.

Bernard Richard

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

Fred Allen

There was a build-up of evidence against [Martini] and clearly they were under heavy pressure to resign. They just threw in the towel.

Adrian Pilz

A government that allows prisoners to be shot at should resign.

David Gamkrelidze

Everything's gone wrong in Frankfort. Those pardons were the biggest joke of all, ... I think this investigation has turned up some really bad things, and because of these pardons the governor ought to resign.

Charles Robinson

We've known about his desire to move on well before Panorama was broadcast. He at no time offered to resign prior to this.

Paddy Harverson

He easily could have come to the officials responsible. If they hadn't acted then, he would resign, have a press conference, and that would be entirely honorable.

Chuck Colson

I should like you to consider this letter as a resignation; I want to resign as one of your most studious and faithful admirers.

Delmore Schwartz

I think he did the right thing by resigning. We still have information we are investigating and claims to pursue.

Scott Holmes

We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.

Frederic Bastiat

And that having gone through it, turn 180 degrees in the other direction and say, it's so important, it's so important to this country and it's so damaging that the president should resign. I think, I think that that is a strategy that betrays partisanship and cynicism.

Joe Lockhart

They should resign, ... Where is their embarrassment? Why are they still in positions of influence and collecting directors' fees?

Hal Vogel

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

Robert Burns

In my own mind I think it would be appropriate for me to resign from the BMA. I expect that to be happening very shortly, in the next two to four weeks.

Hoyt Denton

All Patrick employees who went to Pacific National when the joint venture was formed in 2002 were required to resign from Patrick and did not receive further options from Patrick.

Chris Corrigan

We call for the prime minister to resign. As long as he does not resign, we will continue with our plans to hold a rally.

Chamlong Srimuang

I'm pretty confident that he should resign. I don't know how Governor Taft is going to rebuild the confidence of the people after being hauled off to jail.

Neil Clark

That's his wish. They (JCA) could probably discuss it, but then at the moment it is his wish that he thinks he should resign as the senior coach.

Brian Breese

I like (Clausen's) philosophy and his dedication. He's not going to be a yes-man for anybody. I wasn't really thinking about resigning until I heard Dave would be appointed. I agreed with that.

Herb Behnke

For the sake of the country, the conservative cause, the Republican party and even his own long-term career -- he ought to resign.

William Safire

I am very pleased that this entire board has issued a statement affirming their confidence in my leadership. ... We've got a lot of work to do, but we've got a lot of people now who are all unified in a commitment to this mission ... Why would I resign?

Patricia Harrison

I have decided to end my participation in public affairs and to resign my role as premier of Quebec.

Lucien Bouchard

I should sometimes with pleasure resign the translations to others, that I might be more in the actual exercise of the ministry.

Henry Martyn

Either the PMO has to accede to Pierre Pettigrew -- or Pierre Pettigrew has to resign.

Monte Solberg

Having Congress or having other people call for him to be fired or call for him to resign would not be productive. That's something really only the president should decide.

Martha Rainville

I stand 110 percent behind him and I hope he doesn't resign.

Jim Walker

We believe he should resign from the board as well. It is not clear to us how a two-year lame duck CEO will benefit shareowners, and his continued presence on the board would prevent the company from the clean break that is needed to restore investor confidence.

Sean Harrigan

Nakagawa should be dismissed or resign.

Seiji Maehara

These ministers should have been required to resign a long time ago, or to be suspended by the president to allow for a proper transparent investigation.

Raila Odinga

Berlusconi and the center-right should respond by resigning and open the way for immediate elections.

Piero Fassino

I am not a person who will cling to power. Considering the totality of circumstances and with the Governor pleading inability to grant more time, I have decided to resign.

Dharam Singh

There's no reason to resign. Why should we, we're legitimate board members.

Jerry Kelley

I do not intend to resign from the Red Sox. I don't believe there's any reason for me to do so. If, in any way, anyone associated with the Red Sox is implicated, they will be treated just like everyone else.

George J. Mitchell

I don't see him resigning unless something bad comes out of the investigation. I do see him dissolving parliament. He might need to do something like that. If I were him, I would do it.

Korn Chatikavanij

I just resign myself to a couple of minutes being added every year, so it's nice to see that they're trying to trim it.

Joe Grossman

I hereby resign from Prudential Insurance Company of America. As I look back over my years with the company, I note there have been three of them.

Robert Parker

As a person who loves cricket in Sri Lanka I worked hard to execute my responsibility as the chairman of the committee. It is regretful that the expected outcome was not there. Under these circumstances I am left with no alternative but to resign.

Arjuna Ranatunga

What's the point of resigning after they have been exposed.

Amar Singh

If I can't teach, I can't coach right now. You can't resign one and not the other, it's an all or nothing deal.

Curt Bladt

Jerry Sloan, not some bum, coaches that team. Jerry Sloan ought to take him (Miller) out one of these days, and then resign or walk out.

Michael Wilbon

I do not plan to resign. We did nothing wrong. We were lied to and betrayed and everything else you can think of. We have no reason to resign. The agency needs us.

Max Worthington

The ministers of public order and justice must resign. Nobody believes the government has made public everything it knows about the case.

Nikos Athanassakis

This was long overdue. The public has been demanding that all those involved in corruption must resign and face the law, but it has taken the individuals involved and the government a lot of time to come to terms to the demands.

Mutula Kilonzo

She will now foreclose the avenue of redress in the form of Congress. So the other forum left for her is in her hands ... that is to resign. But that is apparently too much to expect of her.

Aquilino Pimentel

I made a decision and yesterday submitted to the president a request to resign.

Petro Poroshenko

I heard that the board will pressure me to resign, but I will not bow to it. If it wants to sack me, it has to give me a good explanation.

Teerawit Charuwat

That's something that should get your attention immediately. A CEO resigning is a big warning sign.

Tina Vital

When things are heading south, it's not abnormal to resign.

Joe Roseto

I resign in the interests of general progress.

Bajram Kosumi

Herm Edwards is not resigning. He plans to work out the final two years of his contract.

Gary O'hagan

I think it's true. Everybody in the club anticipated that it would happen eventually. I heard it discussed. I think a lot of members feel the way Tom did -- but not to resign over.

Wheelock Whitney

We knew this was always a possibility. There's still a possibility that he could resign with the Dolphins in a week or two.

David Levine

When asked, "If you had been in President Clinton's place would you have resigned?" Armey's reply:"If I had been in the president's place I would not have gotten the chance to resign. I would have been lying in a pool of my own blood, looking up, and listening to my wife ask, 'How do you reload this son of a bitch'?"

Dick Armey

Kareem loved playing for the Bobcats and made returning to the team his top priority. There were some talks with Denver and New Jersey, however all our real focus was on resigning with the Bobcats.

Calvin Andrews

I truly believe it is in both my and the company's best interest for me to resign at this time. So both of us can get on with what we need to do to ensure a prosperous and fulfilling future.

William Carpenter

From today, not any chance of dialogue with him. He must resign.

Vuk Draskovic

He thought it would be in his professional best interest to resign and move on and coach somewhere else.

Robert Gulde

Ronnie Earle railroaded a grand jury into indicting Tom DeLay so that our majority leader would be forced to resign his post. The Democrats could not beat him in the House of Representatives or at the ballot box, so they changed the venue and manipulated the rules of the game in a last-ditch effort to derail him and our Republican agenda.

John Culberson

Those who feed off the Aboriginal industry do not want to see things changed. Look at the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. Members receive $290 a day sitting allowance and $320 a day travelling allowance, and most of these people also hold other very well paid positions. No wonder they did not want to resign recently!

Pauline Hanson

Obviously the most humiliating thing for a politician is having to resign from office. He's forced to leave a position of power not through his own choice.

Jay Heck

It really is incumbent upon them to encourage him to resign and of course, the next question would then be impeachment. And we personally believe impeachment is a valid option.

David Zanotti

The five directors cannot be forced to resign; hence there is no vacancy to which new PCGG directors can be elected.

Estelito Mendoza

If you are going to run for partisan office, particularly if it is full time, at some point you have to leave government employment, ... This gives him some breathing room, but it doesn't get him off the hook. At some point, he will have to take a leave or resign.

Eric Herzik

After 23 years at CNN, I have decided to resign in an effort to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq.

Eason Jordan

Milosevic must resign by September.

Zoran Djindjic