Quotes About Relinquished

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

These old eyes of mine barely see your hands on the table. Illuminated by this candlelight, they look like yellow spiders. Still, they're finely wrought Jewish hands. Whatever they hold, shall not easily be relinquished.

Custo relinquished her carefully, but seemed relieved to let go of her, to let go of Death's child. "Okay," Adam said. He wasn't afraid of her. He'd been looking, praying, for Death for so long that he welcomed the chance to cradle her close—his means to Jacob's end, his tool of vengeance

Freedoms once granted will not be relinquished without a fight. The

Saying good-by, Dick was aware of Elsie Speers' full charm, aware that she meant rather more to him than merely a last unwilingly relinquished fragment of Rosemary. He could possibly have made up Rosemary - he could never have made up her mother.

It is merely that I have been held in an embrace so strong by the journey that I find I have relinquished the will to arrive.

I have been held in an embrace so strong by the journey that I find I have relinquished the will to arrive.

relinquished her hand to another admirer with a nattering air of reluctance, and as he moved

sacrifice and denial are not always one and the same. The word sacrifice means to make sacred. Life is sacred, and sacrifice is returning to life what life has given. A sacrifice might be something offered or relinquished. Something dies and becomes the ground of new life, and both the life and the death are sacred.

I was undisputed. I never got my titles took. I vacated them.

I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option.

Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

And that I relinquished my share in the inheritance; inasmuch as during the last years I had lived in great discord with my father, I felt I did not have a right to anything that was his, and for that matter I did not covet it. You will agree with me that this puts a definite stop to all disagreements with my family. So there is an end of them, and otherwise I am on quite good terms with those at home.

“I will give You authority over all these kingdoms and all their glory,” he said. “For it has been relinquished to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish.