Surrendered Quotes
136 quotes by 117 authors
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So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was…
— Oscar Wilde
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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only…
— Thomas Carlyle
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When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the external aspect of…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth…
— Michael Josephson
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Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment's suffering, but when we are surrendered to God, we…
— Francois Fenelon
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Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
— James F. Byrnes
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The big fun in 'Battleship' is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and they…
— Peter Berg
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Because I became a refugee in Macau during 1941, we had this war in Hong Kong, I fought for the government as an air raid…
— Stanley Ho
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France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
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I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise you to a…
— Nathan Bedford Forrest
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One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
— Michael J. Fox
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The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to…
— Rachel Cusk
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Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at…
— Archibald MacLeish
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The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
— James A. Michener
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
— Toni Morrison
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In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the…
— John Podhoretz
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I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted…
— Tullian Tchividjian
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I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to find that stories…
— Saul Williams
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It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died…
— Stephen King
Who Wrote These Surrendered Quotes
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