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resigned
«In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
oppressed, oppressing, rebellious, resigned, situate, situated, situating
«The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to h»
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Pastor, Theologian)
| About:
Optimism
| Keywords:
abandon, enables, no-account, optimism, resigned, vitality
«Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.»
«We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.»
Author: Graham Greene
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resigned
«The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I was happy. When the rebellion came, I returned to the service because it was a duty. I had no thought of rank; all I did was try and make»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| About:
Military
| Keywords:
farm, military rank, military service, parade, rank, rebellion, resigned, returned, the rebellion, The Service
«Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
appreciating, attic, contented, resigned
«We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
bounds, guardian, guardian angel, resigned, sighs, sullen
«It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bubbles, creep, creep in, give in, impending, keep quiet, mentioning, pleasantly, quiets, reference, resigned, steadily
