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Quotes About Surrender

I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.
~ Lauren Oliver
"What do I want?" is your question. And what you want is always changing with the flow. So go with the flow.
~ Leonard Jacobson
God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.
~ Max Lucado
You can feel that he wants to own you - not like an object but like a good dream he wants to keep having. He lets you know that you already own him.
~ Melissa Bank
If your first response is, 'I can't do this,' then that is exactly where God wants you to be.
~ Mike Glenn
On God for all events depend; You cannot want when God's your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best; Leave to your Maker all the rest.
~ Nathaniel Cotton
If you want something done right, just forget it.
~ Neil Peart
Do not struggle against your thoughts; they are stronger than you are. If you want to be free of them, accept them.
~ Paulo Coelho
A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.
~ Penn Jillette
God's love is free. He asks for nothing in return; all he wants is for his love to be accepted.
~ Pope Francis
And you yourself are recognizing that you are in 'relationship with a beautiful and powerful woman and we both definitely don't want to surrender to each other'.
~ Rajneesh
You can't solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don't want problems solved.
~ Richard Bach
And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?
~ Garth Risk Hallberg
No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.
~ James Mattis
If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.
~ Nathan Bedford Forrest
As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.
~ Max Hastings
As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.
~ Aretha Franklin
I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.
~ Nathan Bedford Forrest
There are five options in war: fight, defend, flee, surrender, or die. You have proven inept at the first two, and now have the temerity to surrender. Death is all you deserve!
~ Sima Yi
General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!
~ John S. Mosby
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
~ Daniel Pipes
Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.
~ Joe Abercrombie
All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte