Quotes About Surrender

You don't have to fight anyone for me, she said. Except you. Oh God. He leveled her with a few words and searing looks. She felt herself in a dizzying plunge, wanting the flight, worried about the landing. I give as much as I am able, she said. I know, he answered.

Are you so simple as to assume that the Big Surrender banished the concept of human slavery from the earth? What is the principle of slavery? Only the literal buying and selling of human flesh on the block? That was only an outside symbol. Real slavery is couched in the desire and the efforts of any man or community to live and advance their interests at the expense of the lives and interests of others. All of the outward signs come out of that.

The four men responsible for this last deal in human flesh, before the surrender of Lee at Appomattox should end the 364 years of Western slave trading, were the three Meaher brothers and one Captain [William "Bill"] Foster. Jim, Tim, and Burns Meaher were natives of Maine. They had a mill and shipyard on the Alabama River at the mouth of Chickasabogue Creek (now called Three-Mile Creek)

I would not like to take credit for all the hard work that I have put in. It's all because of the Almighty. Whatever I have or will get in the future is because of Him.

If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore.

The handsomest wondered at her easy surrender. The men could not understand such luck as the Baron's, not regarding him as particularly fascinating. A few indulgent women said it was not fair to judge the Countess too hastily; young wives would be in a very hapless plight if an expressive look or a few graceful dancing steps were enough to compromise a woman.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Leave all else to the gods.

en vez de agotarme en una defensa angustiosa y a toda costa contra lo que sentía, como deben de haber hecho todos, y aún los marineros sin darse cuenta, acepté sencillamente esa muerte hipnótica, como si estuviese anulado ya.

Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!

Thy way, not mine, O Lord, However dark it be! Lead me by Thine own hand; Choose out the path for me.

Fade, fade, each earthly joy; Jesus is mine! Break every earthly tie; Jesus is mine; Dark is the wilderness; Earth has no resting-place; Jesus alone can bless; Jesus is mine.

When military men take over, honest men dance to the strings they pull. Your life is no longer your own.

He let himself be storm-tossed, riding her billowing sea. When she held him like this he could see nothing, but the colour of his blindness was the colour of waves breaking

We're in some real pretty shit now man! game over, game over.

Penso che le donne sarebbero meravigliose se tutto potesse cadere nello loro braccia, senza cadere nelle loro mani

For the genuine believer] There are moments in life when God's pursuit of us seems like that of a persistent mosquito, constantly buzzing around our heads and causing us pain, and we are utterly powerless to shake him off.

is the attitude expressed by the hymnwriter Augustus Toplady: "Nothing in my hand I bring; simply to thy cross I cling." This attitude is the ultimate idol-smasher, for every idolatry is at root an effort towards self-justification. Every

Let Yourselves be carried by God" John of the Cross from "The Impact of God

Deep in the marrow of our religion is the conviction that loss and sacrifice are noble. To surrender something is the highest proof of Christian duty.

I can't, I can't, I can't help hearing, I can't help seeing. I can't help it unless I run away.

It was great to float on your back in a calm sea and have somebody steer you.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

He felt his arms ache and, looking down, saw that the girl had stopped struggling. There came that point, that sudden, blissful point, when it was useless to go on living, and when the mind and body came to accept that such was the case. That was a beautiful, peaceful moment, the most relaxed moment of one's life.