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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
The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution.… — Walter Lippmann
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist. — Mencius
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Every reign must submit to a greater reign. — Seneca the Younger
Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. — Blaise Pascal
People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars. — Iris Murdoch
Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to… — John Clare
As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and… — Navid Negahban
All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In… — Samuel Johnson
The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control. — Kit Williams
I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts… — Stephen King
If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about… — James Lee Burke
Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer. — Georges Bernanos
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests. — Breyten Breytenbach
Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit. — Algernon Sidney
If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I… — Bruce Dickinson
It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of… — Norbert Leo Butz
I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the ground and who run the machinery… — Pete Domenici

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