The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.
I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.
Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.
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.