Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine, — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide; while the husband who compels it, commits… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic. — Alberto Fujimori Copy Share Image
Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I believe sometimes we aren't always in charge of everything that we do creatively. We submit to things as we're going on… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
My father is doing a radio program - classical music. He has a beautiful speaking voice and that's his passion in life,… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any… — Anne Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“When you submit yourself to God and obey Him, you allow Him to do what He desires in your life. You make… — Jim George Copy Share Image
I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things.… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
