Submission Quotes - Page 11

• Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

  Cesare Pavese

  Suicide, Fall, Way

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.36, Transaction Publishers

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• It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Becoming, Mercy, Repentance

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• What [Nietzsche] calls slave morality is to him purely spite-morality; and this spite-morality gave new names to all ideals. Thus impotence, which offers no reprisal, became goodness; craven baseness became humility; submission to him who was feared became obedience; inability to assert one's self became reluctance to assert one's self, became forgiveness, love of one's enemies. Misery became a distinction

  Georg Brandes

  Humility, Self, Names

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.17, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.

  Francis Chan

  Punishment, Clay, Arrogant

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2011). “Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up”, p.88, David C Cook

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• Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone. Therefore, Muslims do not believe in the concept of freedom of expression, as their speech and actions are determined by divine revelation and not based on people's desires.

  Anjem Choudary

  Believe, Mean, Expression

  "People know the consequences: Opposing view". www.usatoday.com. January 7, 2015.

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• I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God.

  Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

  God, Mean, Thinking

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• The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.

  Mark Strand

  Writing, Numbers, People

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• A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.

  Virginia Foxx

  Believe, Attention, May

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• I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

  Pete Townshend

  Family, Mother, Ambition

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• What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Prayer, Pain, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.

  Andy Stanley

  Block, Love Is, People

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• When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different magazines. A lot of them said they got so many submissions that unless the first page stuck out or the first paragraph or even the first sentence they'll probably send it back. So part of my idea was that if I have a really good first sentence maybe they'll read on a bit further. At least half, maybe more of the stories in Knockemstiff started with the first sentence; I got it down then went from there.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  School, Editors, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Pretty much every issue that we've put out, there have been at least one or two things that really surprised me. It sounds like bullshit, but most of the stories that we've run had that effect on me. We get thousands and thousands of submissions and I don't think we've published a story yet - very few, anyway - where there wasn't something like what Mona Simpson described, where a first sentence or a first page didn't just really command attention.

  Lorin Stein

  Running, Thinking, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Marion Zimmer Bradley took apart my first submission to her, covered the manuscript in red ink revisions, and told me to try her again. I had never been so reeling with authorial joy as I had been that day, holding Marion's letter and seeing that ravaged manuscript - finally, it meant that someone cared!

  Vera Nazarian

  Joy, Trying, Ink

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• Islam is nothing but man's exclusive and total submission to God.

  Abul A'la Maududi

  Men, Submission To God, Islam

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• So, in every case if you really love someone there is an element of submission to them because you want what's best for them, and at times they're going to tell you what's best for them. Even if you have second thoughts about it, you'll probably still do it because you love them.

  Francis George

  Elements, Want, Cases

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

  John Locke

  Mind, Adherence, Prejudice

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.560

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• Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

  David Mitchell

  Children, Thinking, Imagination

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• All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that of men; not self-will, and government by self-control, but submission and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is their nature to live for others; to make complete abnegation of themselves, and to have no life but in their affections.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Men, Self

  John Stuart Mill (1870). “The Subjection of Women”, p.27, Hayes Barton Press

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• The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.

  Henry Miller

  Men, White Man, Mexican

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.156, New Directions Publishing

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• Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men's minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Men, Ideas, Mind

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829). “Inquiry into the freedom of the will. The great Christian doctrine of original sin defended”, p.80

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• The key to not getting rejected if you're writing for a magazine, is to know to read that magazine and know everything about them before you ever make a submission.

  Homer Hickam

  Writing, Keys, Magazines

  Source: interviewingauthors.com

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• Islam does not mean peace. It means submission. The word "peace" for Muslims has a different meaning. Peace, according to Muslims, will be achieved when everyone submits to Islam. Muslims can't offer peace. They can offer truce. In their minds, peace will be achieved only when you are subdued and they are the masters. Any other arrangement is not Islamic.

  Ali Sina

  Islamic, Mean, Mind

  Source: myislam.dk

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• It is absurd if something that is fundamental for humanity and for its survival should in itself be defined as submission. That would mean that society can't carry on without the submission of women.

  Kristina Schroder

  Mean, Humanity, Survival

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

  Richard Curtis

  Mistake, Moving, Keys

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