Quotes tagged ‘Surrender’

(21 total)

“I bow down to the King upon the throne. My life is His, I'm no longer my own.”

“I would say three things: Find what you love, and don’t let it go no matter what. I would say Winston Churchill really knew what he was talking about when he said, ‘Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never ….’ And I would say that I am living proof that it’s true that if you can imagine it,…”

— Elizabeth Holmes, glamour.com

“Maybe God, You’re right, it’s all about total surrender.”

— Dian Tinio, thoughtcatalog.com

“Desire becomes surrender. Surrender becomes power.”

— David Ayer, The Joker, Jared Leto, imdb.com

“Sometimes a man has to surrender to fate. See what it has in store for him.”

— Paul Scheuring, Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell, Robert Knepper, imdb.com

“Jamie: I won't surrender. To you. Or any man. Captain Jonathan Randall: I have to admit, there is a part of me that would be crestfallen if you did.”

— Ira Steven Behr, Jamie Fraser, Sam Heughan, imdb.com

“You will not die while I'm here. You will not surrender while I live. If I have one goddamned purpose in my cursed life it's that.”

— John Logan, Ethan Chandler, Josh Hartnett, imdb.com

“After I died, I began to surrender the parts of myself that were no longer necessary. My desires, beliefs, ambitions, doubts, every trace of my humanity was discarded. I discovered when moving through eternity, it helps to travel lightly. In fact, I held onto only one thing. My memory.”

— Oliver Goldstick, Mary Alice Young, Brenda Strong, imdb.com

“Noreen Vanderslice: Camus says knowing we're all gonna die makes life a joke. Ed Blomquist: So what, you just—you just give up? Noreen Vanderslice: You could kill yourself, get it over with.”

— Noah Hawley, Ben Nedivi, Ed Blomquist, Jesse Plemons, imdb.com

“Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain death—the seas bear only commerce men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world is quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed.”

— Douglas Macarthur, freedomdocuments.com

“As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.”

— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com

“Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.”

— John McCain, p2004.org

“We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.”

— Joseph Stalin, marx2mao.com

“I surrender my desire for a logical culmination. I surrender my desire to be healed. The blurriness of being alive.”

— Richard Siken, amazon.com

“This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone”

— Jack London, amazon.com

“To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice. Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas if I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work.”

— Dylan Thomas, amazon.com

“I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my heart a dark and almighty mystery.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, amazon.com

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which…”

— Lance Armstrong, amazon.com

“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”

— Toni Morrison, amazon.com

“...because once you've got one scar on your face or your heart, its only a matter of time before someone gives you another - and another - until a day doesn't go by when you aren't being bashed senseless, nor a town that you haven't been run out of, and you get to be such a goddamn mess that finally…”

— Nick Cave, goodreads.com