Mugabe's resignation fascinates because the fall of tyrants is always a family story, decline of the father, writ large. What a strange creature he is.
As the resignation letter which I wrote to the Prime Minister clearly implies, it was not the outcome I sought, but it is one that I accept without rancour, despite what might be described as the hard landing involved.
As the resignation letter which I wrote to the Prime Minister clearly implies, it was not the outcome I sought, but it is one that I accept without rancour, despite what might be described as the hard landing involved.
I think until you reach your mid-30s, there's either a real acceptance of where you are or a resignation of where you are.
According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
People don't come to New York out of resignation. They come here with a dream. Mine was to be an actress.
Before the word 'resignation' became a euphemism for being fired, it connoted a sense of public integrity and personal honor.
Maybe it was because my resignation letter was well written, and this attracted the attention of the factory supervisor. They kept me on and gave me a promotion to head up my own newly created department.
I wrote the text of the resignation. I cannot say with precision when, but at the most two weeks before. I wrote it in Latin because something so important you do in Latin. Furthermore, Latin is a language in which I know well how to write in a more appropriate way.
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.