Succumb Quotes
93 quotes by 84 authors
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child…
— Erica Jong
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What, I'm supposed to succumb to your ideal image of what this is? No. I'm gonna stand above that and I'm gonna be who I…
— Demi Lovato
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Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.…
— Albert Schweitzer
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If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the…
— Sun Tzu
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Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.
— Vince Lombardi
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The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.
— Stephen Batchelor
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You're the light I can never have and I'm the darkness you'll never succumb to.
— Jeaniene Frost
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event…
— Alain Badiou
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Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed…
— Henry Adams
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History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards…
— Winston Churchill
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Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of…
— Agatha Christie
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Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have…
— Christine de Pizan
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Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.
— Cameron Crowe
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Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually has a moral…
— Carl Jung
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Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.
— Peter Elbow
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can…
— Harriet Martineau
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If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle
— Sun Tzu
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Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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We see the water of a river flowing uninterruptedly and passing away, and all that floats on its surface, rubbish or beams of trees, all…
— Tikhon of Zadonsk
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