Quotes About Surrender

The second position," Dominique continued, "is called submit. You will kneel forward, face down, arms stretched out on the ground in front of you, ass high in the air, knees spread wide.

it, arms straight, back arched, hips forward. Being forced to hold that position for more than a minute or two was an excellent punishment for naughty sub girls.

to strip and to stand before them in a wait up position, legs slightly apart, wrists crossed above the head.

Make all of me…yours.

Not knowing how mant troops Jenkins truly had, Johnson refused to surrender unless forced to do so by an exhibition of your boasted strength. Jenkins fought for more than five hours before pulling back.

She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.

Love makes its demands, and you listen. You can't bargain with it. You can't fight it. Not if it's really love.

It was that sleep itself—the act of closing the eyes and relinquishing control of her consciousness—was something she was temperamentally unsuited to.

Indifference was the best remedy. Once you conceded defeat, life was a feather bed.

But better to be buried in the rubble than succumb to the Mask. And be flattered, at the end, that Fate had at least offered her a choice of extinctions.

O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last." ? Clive Barker, Abarat

La narrativa horror] ci mostra che il controllo che crediamo di avere è puramente illusorio e che ogni momento vacilliamo nel caos e nell'oblio.

I wanted to be gone forever from being and knowing, which are the pieces of

She was liquid; a boundless sea in a single body, a deluge in a small room, and I will gladly drown in her, if she grants me the chance.

Non c'era premura, né ferocia tra loro... Ma il suo bacio la lasciava senza fiato, le toglieva la ragione, le indeboliva le ginocchia. Era profondo e lungo come se avesse tutto il tempo di questa terra.

Even if you're going to die, you might as well die pretty.

Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground. You let it be, it crawls up your walls.

while the others--those who wanted him to stay, to hold the line, to become the brink, but no farther--felt viable now with disgust for the shouters: they wanted the man to save himself, step backward into the arms of the cops instead of the sky.

It's when people are tired that they're the most vulnerable, most open to temptation.

I want whatever God has for me!

He is in control, but He will give us what we ask for. If all of this was God's will, then we wouldn't have to pray for His will to be done.

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

Don't aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: