“obsequious submissiveness to the religious authorities, and ultimately to Geneva.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
He who doesn't dream doesn't do anything else than sleep...even when he is awaken. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
I think that submissiveness can [be] and is a formidable weapon, which women will use as long as it isn't taken from… — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
“The public must be reduced to passivity in the political realm, but for submissiveness to become a reliable trait, it must be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Life is a scam, It behaves like a beautiful girl, and lead us to the hell. Bring modesty, submissiveness, and piety in… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“In addition to selecting for infantile physical features in many of our pet breeds, we have carefully cultivated an infant-like dependency in… — Charles Danten Copy Share Image
Meekness is marked by silence in the face of abuse and infamy, by submission to God's way, which is higher than our… — V. Raymond Edman Copy Share Image
Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“[W]hat we also see in sex is a kind of submissiveness. But not a kind of submissiveness which is simply 'do what… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman,… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
While most of our suffering is self- inflicted, some is caused by or permitted by God. This sobering reality calls for deep… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good… — John Ross Macduff Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, spiritual submissiveness brings about the wiser use of our time, talents, and gifts as compared with our laboring diligently but conditionally… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image