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Quotes About Surrender

I, I should have just done what you wanted me to in the first place
~ William Gaddis
Annie: Maybe you all do. It's my idea of the original sin. James: What is? Annie: Giving up.
~ William Gibson
There is no room in my body for anything but you. My arms love you, my ears adore you, my knees shake with blind affection. My mind begs you to ask it something so it can obey.
~ William Goldman
Half the Armada had begun to give chase to the great ship Revenge. And the Revenge, alone, was sailing, as it had to do, away. Surrender, the Prince said. It will not happen. SURRENDER! the Prince shouted. DEATH FIRST! Westley roared.
~ William Goldman
Surrender, the Prince said. It will not happen. SURRENDER! the Prince shouted. DEATH FIRST!
~ William Goldman
I'm a dead cookie.
~ William Goldman
Soy tu príncipe y te casarás conmigo —le dijo Humperdinck. —Soy vuestra sierva y me niego —susurró Buttercup. —Soy tu príncipe y no puedes negarte. —Soy vuestra sierva fiel y acabo de hacerlo. —Negarte significa la muerte. —Matadme entonces.
~ William Goldman
All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry Help!
~ William James
I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming love broke into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with love, the burden of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help
~ William James
Resign your destiny to higher powers.
~ William James
Since I gave up to God all ownership in my own life, he has guided me in a thousand ways, and has opened my path in a way almost incredible to those who do not enjoy the blessing of a truly surrendered life.
~ William James
I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure
~ William James
While surrender negotiations were under way—a Dutch officer had come to German headquarters near the bridge to discuss the details and was returning with the German terms—bombers appeared and wiped out the heart of the great city. Some eight hundred persons, almost entirely civilians, were massacred, several thousand wounded and 78,000 made homeless.
~ William L. Shirer
They and the Army leaders, Ludendorff and Hindenburg, had pushed political power into the hands of the reluctant Social Democrats. In doing so they managed also to place on the shoulders of these democratic working-class leaders apparent responsibility for signing the surrender and ultimately the peace treaty, thus laying on them the blame for Germany's defeat and for whatever suffering a lost war and a dictated peace might bring upon the German people.
~ William L. Shirer
Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks.
~ China Mieville
The gods don't owe us anything. That's not why we worship. We worship because they're gods. This is their universe, not ours. What they choose they choose and it's not ours to know why.
~ China Mieville
I didn't move: I had no moving left in me.
~ China Mieville
SURRENDER—Pray Psalm 139:23–24: Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Commit to respond to whatever the Holy Spirit reveals to you.
~ Chip Ingram
The goddess doesn't care how many minutes you spend in front of her," he said. "Only how much you want to be here.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Priya thinks, The things we give away are no longer ours to control.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The grandfather dropped his weapons and knelt before him. On his face was a look I could only interpret as hope. "And have you come to set me free finally, Govinda?" he asked.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
We must surrender our hopes and expectations, as well as our fears, and march directly into disappointment, work with disappointment, go into it, and make it our way of life, which is a very hard thing to do. Disappointment is a a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
I ain't afraid to drown if that means I'm deep up in your ocean.
~ Chris Brown
All the things we make exceptional are merely borrowed from the mundane and must without warning be surrendered to it.
~ Chris Cleave