Quotes About Acquiescence

The little man was all smiling acquiescence.

Some things work out when you just let them be what they are.

It never occurred to me to say no

If I converse with a strong mind and a rough disputant, he presses upon my flanks, and pricks me right and left; his imaginations stir up mine, jealousy, glory, and contention, stimulate and raise me up to something above myself; and acquiescence is a quality altogether tedious in discourse.

Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit

Adam nodded.

Whatever you want me to play, I'll just do it.

Billy made no demur. But, indeed, any demur would have been as idle as the protest of a goldfinch popped into a cage.

Amari did as he was told. At

To keep the place running smoothly, students' behavior becomes more important than their understanding, acquiescence more valued than inquiry

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept.... My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.

It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.

All the devil asks is acquiescence; not conflict, not struggle. Acquiescence.

If you want to fit in, you try to mirror whatever anyone wants from you.

how much I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to it all, their simpleminded patriotism, their prideful ignorance, their love-it-or-leave-it platitudes

Cosgrove wondered why he was such a willing accomplice to Hanson's dumbfuckery. Why he deferred to the whims of this latter-day village idiot. But there really wasn't any mystery to his acquiescence. He was desperate. Desperate and, yes, curious. Curious to see what would become of all of this.

Maybe this is another way to think about original sin—the ingrained lure of the possibility of going numb, a habit of acquiescence to it.

I can feel myself giving up over time. Getting used to it. Old age is getting used to things.

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not in an exemption from, suffering.

Women are the true maintenance class. Society is built upon their acquiescence and upon their small and necessary labours.

Postoji pri?a da je na dvoru nekog sultana bio naro?it ?inovnik ?ija je titula glasila: evet-efendija. Njegova jedina dužnost bila je "da klima glavom u znak odobravanja na sve što sultan kaže

Kid Chaos : "Yes, ma'am".

Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.