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239 Submission quotes by 209 unique authors

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding… — Zelda Fitzgerald
For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially… — Marcel Proust
Can’t you nudge her into submission? (Taryn) Are you kidding? As stubborn as she is? I’d fry my brain trying. (Sphinx) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of… — Gilles Deleuze
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission? — Barbara Kingsolver
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial.… — Dan Barker
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. — George Eliot
Once— and most of the night definitely counts as once—you can write off as a mistake. But you do this again and he's going to… — Nalini Singh
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud… — Khalil Gibran
I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test… — Veronica Roth
Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.' Conall laughed. 'Someone has to keep… — Gail Carriger
Mencheres. Bones co-ruler, grandsire, Master vampire of incredible power, and the ally who unnerved me the most, had telekinetically held me down so Bones could… — Jeaniene Frost
Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize… — Laurie R. King
What if I arrange to be around Lord Akeldama during the full moon?” The earl looked daggers. “I am certain he would be extremely helpful… — Gail Carriger
We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans,… — Lauren Oliver
Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action. — Fulton J. Sheen
Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject… — Hector Hugh Munro
I felt angry, frustrated. I felt I didn't belong, not in my church, not in my home, not in my skin. Amidst the chaos, i… — Ellen Hopkins
I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal… — Jo Nesbo
They weren’t idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission. — Kim Harrison
I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission. — Lisa Kleypas
In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I… — Natsuo Kirino
When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game?… — Noam Chomsky
One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t… — Elif Safak
What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We. — Ayn Rand

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