Surrendered Quotes

136 quotes by 117 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them. — James F. Byrnes
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
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
France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose. — Jean-Marie Le Pen
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
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. — Michael J. Fox
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
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
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
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. — Toni Morrison
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
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
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
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

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