In regard of God, patience is a submission to His sovereignty. To endure a trial, simply because we cannot avoid or resist… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Want the Change," Rilke said, "O be inspired by the Flame!" To laurel, to nightingale, to wind... to *wanting* it, to be… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Behave," he gritted at her as if he was in control of this, of her, of his own wild response, "and this… — Caitlin Crews Copy Share Image
The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
It is very much easier to work than to pray. Most of the missionaries are earnest workers. But are we all that… — Griffith John Copy Share Image
For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
“Christianity and Socialism Compared "Socialism is the antithesis of Christianity. Socialism is filled with elitists and Christianity is the faith of servants.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Submissive men, men who desire to serve as consensual slaves, are on one of the most difficult journeys in the world today,… — TammyJo Eckhart Copy Share Image
Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be… — Carolyn Chute Copy Share Image
America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“It’s always been what I am. And let me tell you this right now. If this is what you want. If this… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive.… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
To bear adversity with meek submission to the will of God; to endure chastisement with all long-suffering and joyfulness; to appear cheerful… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe,… — Axel Munthe Copy Share Image
The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our receiving submissions… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Writing for film is so different; it's such an act of submission, both on a monetary and time level, because you basically… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia… — James Stockdale Copy Share Image
Thought must never submit, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“Make me a captive, Lord, And then I shall be free; Force me to render up my sword, And I shall conqueror… — George Matheson Copy Share Image
Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself and to submit yourself.… — Tichina Arnold Copy Share Image
I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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