Surrender Quotes

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Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of… — Tad Williams
Throwing down your staff may sound like a sign of surrender, but in Egyptian magic, it's bad news. It usually means, 'Hey, I'm going to… — Rick Riordan
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness… — Miguel de Cervantes
Love is giving up control. Itâ€™s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The twoâ€”love and controlling power over the other personâ€”are mutually exclusive.… — Rob Bell
Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender. — Sebastian Faulks
The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creatorâ€”to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the… — C.S. Lewis
Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at… — John Green
â€¦Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner… — Richard Carlson
Moiraine: It seems Ryne was wrong as well as a Darkfriend. You were better than he. Lan: He was better. But he thought I was… — Robert Jordan
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from… — David Lodge
Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heartâ€™s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is… — Jonathan Franzen
Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont — Ayn Rand
What was I afraid of, exactly? What other people would think? I guess, a little. But that wasn't what was stopping me from acting on… — Julie Anne Peters
Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore. — Cheryl Strayed
You are only a prisoner when you surrender. — Tad Williams
The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender. — Thomas Keneally
For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject.… — Albert Camus
Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents… — Paolo Giordano
One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the… — Elisabeth Elliot

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