I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon...

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

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?

Resignation is what kills people. Once they’ve rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

When he resigned his boss thought he was asking for more money. ‘No,’ he said. ‘I’m just going to try to be a full-time writer.’ Oh, his boss said, you want a lot more money....

He saw it for the first time: on the day he died he would be wearing unmatching socks, there would be unanswered e-mails, and in the hovel he called home there would still be shirts...

I took a heavenly ride through our silenceI knew the moment had arrivedFor killing the past and coming back to life”.

Those who fail to deliver will be asked to tender their resignation or risk being forced out in a shareholder revolt.

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...

I have produced no children of my own and my husband is dead,” she replied, an acid tone in her voice. “Thus I am more to be pitied than revered. I am expected to give...

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The...

There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself...

My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.

Every morning I called Aeroflot to ask about my suitcase. “Oh, it’s you,” sighed the clerk. “Yes, I have your request right here. Address: Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy’s house. When we find the suitcase we will...

Darkness enveloped us again, and for the first time in years, I welcomed it.

What do you mean, ‘Angle of Repose?’ she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother’s life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down....

I was just as black as I had been the day that I was born. Therefore, when I faced a congregation, it began to take all the strength I had not to stammer, not to...

Sergei doesn’t yearn for love…he thirsts for domination, and now he has finally achieved it.

What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love.

One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to lookvertically upwards

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run backward. Yet, he felt there must be an alternative, neither willfulness nor resignation. He couldn’t put words to...

La verdad, es que en el fondo soy un fatalista. Si a uno le llega la hora, da lo mismo un Boeing que la puntual maceta que se derrumba sobre uno desde un séptimo piso

As her fate, she accepted the world of ice, shining, shimmering, dead; she resigned herself to the triumph of glaciers and the death of the world.

Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles...

To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

I’ve made peace with myself.Good for you. That’s the hardest war of all to win.Didn’t say I won. Just stopped fighting.

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our...

But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which you have lived for days.

Resignation is just simply out of the question,

All right, then, I’ll go to hell.

We have received the resignation letter from Duran, effective on August 31, and today the president designated Carlos Marin to be acting United States commissioner.

The least important issue today is my resignation. The real issue is the lives of Palestinians and Israelis, breaking the vicious cycle and reviving the peace process and putting it back on track.

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

No indeed. I will curse the stars and go down fighting. But it will still have been a wonderful thing, to cross the mist.

Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!

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...

Careers increasingly come with a reboot button, and companies that realize this early possess a competitive talent advantage

She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.