Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
My husband said, 'Now you need to go and get a post-doctorate degree in tax law.' Tax law! I hate taxes. Why… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
I've noticed in the Caribbean culture, the women aren't submissive - they're very fiery. — Lela Loren Copy Share Image
Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of His children and… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
“You mean you are now my slave without illusions, and for that reason you shall feel the weight of my foot without… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“...you make it sound like this is work. I’m having a hard time thinking about sex as a project to manage.” He… — Lexi Blake Copy Share Image
the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive. — Ernst Rohm Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive? — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to… — Elizabeth Missing Sewell Copy Share Image
The pencil you leave it there, and it's dead. It doesn't do anything and it doesn't move by itself. It doesn't offer… — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally. — Maria Doyle Kennedy Copy Share Image
“You must bow on your knees at all times before the ruling-class norms to show you are submissive.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty. — Trevor Treharne Copy Share Image
Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with… — Donald Cargill Copy Share Image
People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness. — Han Fei Copy Share Image
I think 'fan' implies somebody who's submissive, sycophantic, in awe of everything you're doing. — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
