Surrender Quotes

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Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at… — Tupac Shakur
There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions in order to… — Milan Kundera
Angel looks down at him and says, â€œOh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender? — Patti Smith
But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming… — Barbara Kingsolver
It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender — Leonard Cohen
Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take… — Howard Nemerov
They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance. — Mark Helprin
This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder… — Lisa Kleypas
She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be… — William Faulkner
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the… — Samuel Adams
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.… — Maya Angelou
It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the… — Soren Kierkegaard
This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The… — Muriel Barbery
I don't suppose you would consider peaceful surrender? — Eoin Colfer
...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender… — Milan Kundera
Always say â€œyesâ€ to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could… — Eckhart Tolle
self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion... — W. Somerset Maugham
The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the… — Albert Einstein
Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives… — Thomas Merton
[Riley] slapped his hands to his face and then dropped them as if in surrender. 'I always say the wrong thing around you. Look, can… — Maria V. Snyder

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