“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I mean, full stops are quite important, aren't they? Yet by contrast to the versatile apostrophe, they are stolid little chaps, to… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The horse seems to wanna please the human and so many times if the human isn’t much of a leader well then… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
“Don't judge too harshly, for if your weaknesses were to be placed under your footsteps, most likely you would stumble and fall… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
It is not death that I'm apparently now succumbing to, but the rapid diminishment of lifeforce from this body of mine. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
People are going through tough times. I want to say to them, "Live your joy." I know I can tell them that… — Bonnie St. John Copy Share Image
The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group… — Simon Doonan Copy Share Image