Quotes About Surrender

Quarrelling with the Prince of Barrow was like fighting a curtain. Robin Stewart gave up.

You will be told when and from where the fleet is leaving. I am…conscious that you are all giving up money and position in France for this." "We only came in the first place," Danny said, open-eyed, "because you were coming.

There is little you cannot already guess. You know now what you want. You are about to learn how to give. But the hardest lesson of all is accepting. Am I not right?

He was not his own master when he left Russia,' Sybilla said. 'Nor was he his own master when you brought him to France. He is like a river forced into glass and driven from stem to stem of a conjurer's maze without ever reaching the sea.

Even if it is the twilight of the world, before night falls I will sleep in your arms.' . . .

If you want it your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of your own way forever.

But He, unshaken, with exultant voice cried, It is finished! and gave up the ghost. Finished--when men had thought it scarce begun.

to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes.

Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.

I don't ask You to make it easy for me—You can't do that, for all that You could make a world.

Don't try taking over the Almighty's job," he said. "He's much better at it than you

The point is, you see, said Ford, that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

One day old Thrashbarg said that Almighty Bob had declared that he, Thrashbarg, was to have first pick of the sandwiches. The villagers asked him when this had happened, exactly, and Thrashbarg said it had happened yesterday, when they weren't looking. 'Have faith,' Old Thrashbarg said, 'or burn!' They let him have first pick of the sandwiches. It seemed easiest.

Now—either you all give yourselves up now and let us beat you up a bit, though not very much of course because we are firmly opposed to needless violence, or we blow up this entire planet and possibly one or two others we noticed on our way out here!

Look," said Arthur, "would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?" For

The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief

When the Infinite Improbability Drive arrived and whole planets started unexpectedly turning into banana fruitcake, the great history faculty of the University of MaxiMegalon finally gave up, closed itself down and surrendered its buildings to the rapidly growing joint faculty of Divinity and Water Polo, which had been after them for years. Which

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?" ? Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

Look,' said Arthur, 'would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

When the Infinite Improbability Drive arrived and whole planets started unexpectedly turning into banana fruitcake, the great history faculty of the University of MaxiMegalon finally gave up, closed itself down and surrendered its buildings to the rapidly growing joint faculty of Divinity and Water Polo, which had been after them for years.

Now - here is my secret: I tell it to you with an openness of heart that I doubt I shall ever achieve again, so I pray that you are in a quiet room as you hear these words. My secret is that I need God - that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.

Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.

I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control.