Surrender Quotes - Page 27

• I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.

  Amy Adams

  People, Best Experiences, Spontaneity

  "Amy Adams Interview LEAP YEAR". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. January 3, 2010.

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• God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

  Walter Annenberg

  Fighting, Temptation, Grants

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• I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.

  Joe Arpaio

  Responsibility, Government, Sheriffs

  "Justice Department cuts off civil rights talks with Sheriff Joe, vows lawsuit". www.foxnews.com. April 4, 2012.

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• The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

  James A. Baldwin

  Love, Soul, Dominance

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• I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.

  Kristen Bell

  Sunday, Comforting, Nachos

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• I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.

  Rachel Cusk

  Taken, Motherhood, People

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• If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.

  Ani DiFranco

  Style, Causes, Left

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• I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

  Brian Eno

  Atheist, People, Giving

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• Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Should Have, Interesting, Way

  "Marianne Faithfull: 'I don't think I had any choice but to be decadent'". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2013.

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• But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.

  Barney Frank

  Government, President, Firsts

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• No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Moving, Unconditional Love, Term

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

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• I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

  Bede Griffiths

  Dark, Self, Repentance

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• We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Fighting, Moscow, Determined

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• V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific.

  Doc Hastings

  Fighting, Japan, Victory

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• There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

  Brad Henry

  Too Much, Polarization, Stakes

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• To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

  James McGreevey

  Mean, Godly, Decision

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• My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Stupidity, Dumb

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• But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.

  Pat Robertson

  Mistake, Home, Erosion

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• After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

  Barney Ross

  War, Bombs, Tokyo

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• Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.

  Hun Sen

  Suicide, Pot, Commit

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• A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Practice, Special

  Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”, p.15

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• It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Rights, Natural

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.

  Henry L. Stimson

  War, Unconditional Love, Japan

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• Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Names, Church

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Home

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