Quotes About Submission

Bad writing does nothing, changes nothing, educates no emotions, rewires no inner circuitry - we close its covers with the same metaphysical confidence in the universality of our own interface as we did when we opened it. But great writing - great writing forces you to submit to its vision. You spend the morning reading Chekhov and in the afternoon, walking through your neighbourhood, the world has turned Chekhovian; the waitress in the cafe offers a non- sequitur, a dog dances in the street.

Sometimes it is right to submit to love, and wrong to resist affection. Sometimes it is wrong to resist disease and right to submit to the inevitable. And vice versa. Each novel you read (never mind the novels you write) will give you some theory of which attitude is best to strike at which moment, and —if you experience enough of them— will provide you, at the very least, with a wide repertoire of possible attitudes.

Shut off your wind, Jack! And you, too, Blaze! I didn't want you fellows to come here. But as you would come, you've got to shut up. This is my business.

The town had a basketful of feelings good and bad about Joe's positions and possessions, but none had the temerity to challenge him. They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

He ain't kissin' yo' mouf when he carry on over yuh lak dat. He's kissin' yo' foot and 'tain't in uh man tuh kiss foot long. Mouf kissin' is on uh equal and dat's natural but when dey got to bow down tuh love, dey soon straightens up.

Papa used to shake his head at this and say, "What's de use of me taking my fist to a poor weakly thing like a woman? Anyhow, you got to submit yourself to 'em, so there ain't no use in beating on 'em and then have to go back and beg 'em pardon.

It's abnormal for any man to have a leader other than God and Christ.

Whatever my agent says to do, I usually do.

You women will live as if father is still alive and in the next room.

I always listen to my director and never argue with him.

You haven't yet given me the right to obey you when you say: 'I want to.

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

Leave all else to the gods.

The first great paper on allosteric proteins, written with Changeux and Jacob, was submitted to The Journal of Molecular Biology at the end of 1962.

To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is; and despise affectation.

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.

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.

croak us for free. He'd suck Nino's ass with a straw.

Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.

A woman, though she is a queen, is meant by God to be instructed by her husband." It is the bishop of Orange who says this, and she smiles and imagines cleaving him with a sword, right through his skull to his breastbone

We are mere subjects of the world's decision for us.