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Quotes About Submission

My body recognized its master even if I didn't.
~ Joanna Wylde
Thinking of the last few words in Hebrews 13:17 — that when our kids obey their leaders and submit to their authority, the end result will be to their advantage —Melanie couldn't help but marvel at the goodness of God.
~ Jodie Berndt
Why?' she hissed. Why indeed? 'I give you orders,' he barked, 'not fucking reasons!
~ Joe Abercrombie
In violent times folk like to kneel to violent men. In peaceful times they remember they're happier standing.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
~ Anna Howard Shaw
Every master loves to fuck a slave. It is a law of nature, or maybe culture.
~ Annalee Newitz
They didn't just want to oppress us: they wanted us to thank them for it."81
~ Anne Applebaum
After a short time I changed my condition and was married, and came into this country, where I found a new world and new manners, at which my heart rose. But after I was convinced it was the way of God, I submitted to it and joined the church at Boston.
~ Anne Bradstreet
We can know what the Lord wants us to do—and experience 'the blessing which hath been bestowed upon us, that we have been made instruments in the hands of God to bring about this great work' (Alma 26:3). . . . "To truly be an instrument in the hands of God, in order to fully have that blessing bestowed upon us in 'the day of this life' in which we 'perform [our] labors' (Alma 34:32), we must, as Elder Maxwell says, 'finally submit ourselves' (Ensign, Nov. 1995, 24) to the Lord.
~ Anne C. Pingree
His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you." JOHN 2:5
~ Anne Graham Lotz
Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.
~ Anne Robinson
I want to lay my kill at your feet.
~ Annette Curtis Klause
Il y a eu, comme alors, les caresses réciproques avec les lèvres. Nous avons un accord profond. J'aime les positions de soumission où il me domine complètement, me voit de dos et je ne le vois pas, idem la fellation.
~ Annie Ernaux
Ce n'est pas à lui qu'elle se soumet, c'est à une loi indiscutable, universelle, celle d'une sauvagerie masculine qu'un jour ou l'autre il lui aurait bien fallu subir. Que cette loi soit brutale et sale, c'est ainsi.
~ Annie Ernaux
Je ne peux pas dire que les hommes me perdent, ce n'est que mon désir qui me perd, la soumission à (ou la quête de) quelque chose de terrible, que je ne comprends pas, né dans l'union avec un corps, et aussitôt disparu.
~ Annie Ernaux
If we humble ourselves before the Lord, He will lift us up... He will. That's His promise.
~ Paul Washer
Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.
~ Bear Bryant
Church again. My prayer is now only, 'Here I am again. Show me what to do; help me do it.
~ Evelyn Waugh
It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.
~ Fannie Flagg
Whether or not they exist we are slaves to our gods.
~ Fernando Pessoa
All that I've done, thought or been is a series of submissions, either to a false self that I assumed belonged to me because I expressed myself through it to the outside, or to a weight of circumstances that I supposed was the air I breathed. In this moment of seeing, I suddenly find myself isolated, an exile where I'd always thought I was a citizen. At the heart of my thoughts I wasn't I.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Só esta liberdade nos concedem Os deuses: submetermo-nos Ao seu domínio por vontade nossa. Mais vale assim fazermos Porque só na ilusão da liberdade A liberdade existe.
~ Fernando Pessoa
İster var olsunlar ister var olmas?nlar, biz tanr?lar?n kölesiyiz.
~ Fernando Pessoa
To submit to nothing, whether to a man or a love or an idea, and to have the aloof independence of not believing in the truth or even (if it existed) in the usefulness of knowing it – this seems to me the right attitude for the intellectual inner life of those who can't live without thinking.
~ Fernando Pessoa