Submit Quotes - Page 17

• Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

  Lauryn Hill

  Stewardship, Should, Force

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

  Thomas Huxley

  Hazards, Way, Guidance

  Thomas Henry Huxley (19??). “Aphorisms of Thomas Huxley”

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Choices, Police, Mind

  13 Copy quote

• We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Attitude, Majority, Posture

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2692, Delphi Classics

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

  John Milton

  Courage, Revenge, Hate

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 105 (1667)

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Secret Places, Order, Thrones

  7 Copy quote

• Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU to question my behavior, HUH??? What gives you the right?! Hobbes: Santa makes the toys, so he gets to decide who to give them to. Calvin: Oh.

  Bill Watterson

  Fate, Giving, Demand

  4 Copy quote

• I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must involve themselves in the anguish of other human beings. This, I submit to you, is not a political thesis at all. It is simply an expression of what I would hope might be ultimately a simple humanity for humanity's sake.

  Rod Serling

  Simple, Expression, Political

  7 Copy quote

• Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.

  Winston Churchill

  Positive, Hurt, Mistake

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Grief

  276 Copy quote

• Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Forgiveness, Attitude, Moving

  8 Copy quote

• A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Men, Order

  "LIFE" Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 6, (p. 48), August 5, 1946.

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Learning, School, Long

  10 Copy quote

• We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Marriage, Evil, Nuclear Families

  15 Copy quote

• The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

  William Hazlitt

  Respect, Men, Way

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.143

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

  Rumi

  Loyalty, Yoga, Doors

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.142, Penguin UK

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper under, a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Sky, Giving

  6 Copy quote

• Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the injustice which one half of the human race are obliged to submit to, retorting on their oppressors, the virtue of men will be worm-eaten by the insect whom he keeps under his feet

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Wise, Men, Race

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, p.186, Cosimo, Inc.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

  Ben Goldacre

  Teacher, Water, Arseholes

  Ben Goldacre (2008). “Bad Science”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.

  John Adams

  Religious, Believe, May

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.140, UPNE

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Christian, Wise, Sweet

  Jeremiah Burroughs (2001). “Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.2, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Plot, Stories, Scripture

  53 Copy quote

• Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Heart, Contentment, Circumstances

  23 Copy quote

• A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Wife, Yoke

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.92, The Floating Press

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

  George Washington

  Humble, Modesty, Argument

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.412

  10 Copy quote

  Show source