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Quotes About Surrendered

The remaining units of the republican army surrendered.
~ Anthony Everitt
One by one, the great cities of the east were either sacked by the Persians or surrendered:
~ Roderick Beaton
Of course, you'll defend Jay, says Rango, He was a part of your former life, of your former values. I will never be able to alter that. I want you to think as I do. But Rango, you couldn't respect someone who surrendered an opinion merely to please you . It would be hypocrisy.
~ Anais Nin
The biggest mistake made by German commanders was to have underestimated 'Ivan', the ordinary Red Army soldier. They quickly found that surrounded or outnumbered Soviet soldiers went on fighting when their counterparts from western armies would have surrendered.
~ Antony Beevor
Now I'm standing in front of a thousand people. They're all looking at me, but they're sitting down. They're surrendered, so I have to keep on proving myself to them and giving them all my passion.
~ Benjamin Clementine
She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek.
~ Ayn Rand
I have a request to make,my lord. He held her gaze; she could see him trying to decide what she might ask, but eventually he surrendered.And that is? Take me to your bed.
~ Stephanie Laurens
With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.
~ Jeremy Lin
look forward to the day when the Church will declare, "Don't believe us unless we are doing the works that Jesus did!" I owe the world a Spirit-filled life, for I owe the world an encounter with God. Without the fullness of the Holy Spirit both in and upon me, I will not be a surrendered vessel for God to flow through.
~ Bill Johnson
Day had surrendered her rays, but the field, made from some newfangled artificial turf, had stadium-quality lights.
~ Harlan Coben
eloquence, charisma, or intelligence but on his surrendered life to Christ. Moody could not make himself more talented, but he could choose to be more surrendered. As he yielded his life to God, he immediately began to experience God using him in ways he could never have imagined. Moody
~ Henry T. Blackaby
Joseph Spencer sent Madison a copy of John Leland's "Objections to the Constitution," which began: "There is no Bill Rights, whenever a Number of men enter into a State of Society, a Number of individual Rights must be given up to Society, but there should always be a memorial of those not surrendered . . . . "6 Madison would meet with Leland and win him over to the federalist cause.
~ Stephen P. Halbrook
Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary
~ Karl Marx
Mexico surrendered. There were calls among Americans to take all of Mexico. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed February 1848, just took half. The Texas boundary was set at the Rio Grande; New Mexico and California were ceded. The United States paid Mexico $15 million, which led the Whig Intelligencer to conclude that "we take nothing by conquest. . . . Thank God.
~ Howard Zinn
Nothing is so dishonourable in a civilised nation as to permit itself to be 'governed' without resistance by a reckless clique that has surrendered to depraved instinct.
~ Ian Mcewan
He was Caradorean, son of a conquered race. He was little more than a slave. Not like Val. Val had surrendered himself entirely to Magravandias, in body and soul. Now he was no longer the boy with whom Khaster had explored the forests above Norgance. Now he was the Dragon Lord, part of the emperor's inner circle, where Khaster would never be invited.
~ Storm Constantine
He was exquisite; almost too good to brisk, and yet, someone, somewhere, had surrendered him, this lovely son, for our refreshment. I could have wept at the gesture.
~ Storm Constantine
This is just how they want you, an animal, a bitch with swollen udder lying in the dirt, blank-faced, surrendered, reduced to this meat, these smells...
~ Thomas Pynchon
The schnapps had worked its blessed magic. Drunk now, we surrendered to a blankness born of terror. We sailed on a black sea and we had only one goal: not to look down and drown in it.
~ Carsten Jensen
Lady Tanda's daughter had surrendered her maidenhood to half a hundred shouting men behind a tanner's shop. The gold cloaks found her wandering naked on Sowbelly Row.
~ George R.R. Martin
Only time might help, time which surrendered all secrets but only on the inexorable condition, as far as he could tell, that the secret could no longer be used.
~ James Baldwin
In emotions you should be bubbling with joy. Joy is your emotion. In action you should be thoughtless and in ascent you should be surrendered.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
The powers of devils are nothing if these devils do not find souls cowardly and surrendered to them; it is with such souls that they show their power.
~ Teresa of Avila
why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading a newspaper or chatting with the girls she worked with all day. And maybe she always read like that--with an air of having surrendered totally to a spell.
~ James Hilton