Quotes About Surrender

People trying to make a show of their authority are easily deceived by the surrender tactic.

We have seen that it can be better to surrender than to fight; faced with a more powerful opponent and a sure defeat, it is often also better to surrender than to run away. Running away may save you for the time being, but the aggressor will eventually catch up with you. If you surrender instead, you have an opportunity to coil around your enemy and strike with your fangs from close up.

We are the boys who go to a particular place, at H-hour, occupy a designated terrain, stand on it, dig the enemy out of their holes, force them then and there to surrender or die. We're the bloody infantry.

Didn't Cause it, can't Cure it, can't Control it.

Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.

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 finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

I surrender to it, and by surrendering, I control it.

When you have a wolf by the ears, it's as hard to let go as to hold on.

Lan shook his head sightly He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

Lan shook his head slightly. "He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

To control saidar, you first had to surrender to it. Fight, and it would come wildly, or overwhelm you; surrender and guide it gently, and it did as you wished.

The Dark One," Lan said, "cannot be defeated without chancing risks. But we are alive at this moment, and before us is the hope of remaining alive. Do not surrender before you are beaten.

Only by surrendering to the Pattern can you begin to have some control over the course of your own life. If you fight, the Pattern will still force you, and you will find only misery where you might have found contentment instead.

The only way to live is to die.

When you knew you were going to hang, the only thing to do was grin at the noose

Lan shook his head slightly. "He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead." Moiraine nodded. Surrender after you are dead. Yes.

You must learn to ride fate. Only by surrendering to the Pattern can you begin to have some control over the course of your own life. If you fight, the Pattern will still force you, and you will find only misery where you might have found contentment instead.

When change comes, you can scream and try to force things to stay the same. But you'll usually end up getting trampled. However, if you can direct the changes, they can serve you. Just as the Power serves us, but only after we surrender to it.

Spiritual growth takes place as we become more and more willing to submit, more and more anxious to learn and carry out the will of him who knows best what to do with us.

When we understand that vacate is a form of the Latin verb meaning "be still," we can understand more fully what scholar Simon Tugwell meant when he said, "God invites us to take a holiday [vacation], to stop being God for a while, and let him be God."2

That's extremely important to understand. He had given up. Because he'd given up, the surface of life was comfortable for him. He worked reasonably hard, was easy to get along with and, except for an occasional glimpse of inner emptiness shown in some short stories he wrote at the time, his days passed quite usually.

Let me say I am here, (1) By God's appointment, (2) In His keeping, (3) Under His training