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239 Submission quotes by 209 unique authors
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The Lord commands the wife to be submissive. Refusal to submit to the husband is therefore rebellion against God Himself. Submission to the husband is…
— Wayne Mack
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It is very much easier to work than to pray. Most of the missionaries are earnest workers. But are we all that we should be…
— Griffith John
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I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being…
— John Updike
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The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which of two parties…
— Lysander Spooner
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Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.
— Kim Il-sung
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Thought must never submit, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea,…
— Henri Poincare
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One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of…
— Vincent de Paul
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The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by…
— William Penn
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O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!
— Vincent de Paul
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Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath…
— C.S. Lewis
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Trust and respect are two-way streets. We want the horse to accept us as leaders of the herd, to guide them safely and to provide…
— Walter Zettl
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Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn…
— Ayn Rand
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If you look at UFC champions: BJ Penn - terrifying! GSP - terrifying! Anderson Silva - terrifying! But I'm not terrifying. I am not the…
— Forrest Griffin
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To carry the spirit of peace into war is a weak and cruel policy. When an extreme case calls for that remedy which is in…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Michael Moore: a man who never without an excuse for keeping murdering tyrants in power. But now he's supporting the man who bombed Milosevic into…
— Andrew Sullivan
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In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power…
— Elif Safak
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Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
— Michel de Montaigne
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It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your…
— John Ruskin
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To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision,…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply…
— George Orwell
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The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of…
— Mark Strand
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The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and…
— Sara Paretsky
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So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an…
— Amy Waldman
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