Submit Quotes - Page 10

• Submit to love without thinking,
  as the sun rose this morning
  recklessly extinguishing
  our star-candle minds.

  Rumi

  Morning, Stars, Thinking

  10 Copy quote

• If I were an Indian...I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people who adhere to the free open plains, rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation.

  George Armstrong Custer

  People, Limits, Reservations

  George Armstrong Custer (1874). “My Life on the Plains: Or, Personal Experiences with Indians”, p.18

  76 Copy quote

  Show source

• We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

  Nick Rahall

  Compromise, Wilderness, Process

  7 Copy quote

• The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we seek to condemn and punish, have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Responsibility, Civilization, Hands

  Opening statement for the prosecution before International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, 21 Nov. 1945

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Butterfly, Age, Cocoons

  37 Copy quote

• Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Thinking, Fire, Facts

  "Twelve Virtues Of Rationality" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, yudkowsky.net. 2006.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Hands, Gold

  7 Copy quote

• There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Destiny, Men

  4 Copy quote

• I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  People, Office, Design

  Jonathan Mayhew (1969). “Sermons: Seven Sermons: A Discourse, Concerning the Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers. The Snare Broken”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The will of God for your life is simply that you submit yourself to Him each day and say, 'Father, Your will for today is mine. You lead me today and I will follow.

  Kay Arthur

  Father, Each Day, Today

  Kay Arthur (2002). “Speak to My Heart, God: For Every Need, for Every Moment...”, p.18, Harvest House Publishers

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Public Opinion, Faces

  "Delphine". Book by Madame de Stael, 1802.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule, by which they may be exempted from the tyranny of caprice and of chance. They are glad to supply by external authority their own want of constancy and resolution, and court the government of others, when long experience has convinced them of their own inability to govern themselves.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Order, Discipline

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.422

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people. The Rulers who are guilty of such an encroachment, exceed the commission from which they derive their authority and are Tyrants. The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them, and are slaves.

  James Madison

  Rights, Government, Law

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793”, p.163

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Law, Errors

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Truth, Teaching, May

  Simon Greenleaf (1846). “An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice: With an Account of the Trial of Jesus”, p.21

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

  John Cornyn

  Block, Voting, President

  27 Copy quote

• In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Beauty, Girl

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.551, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

  Fannie Hurst

  Guests, Gestures, Host

  8 Copy quote

• However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

  Helen Dunmore

  Entering, Magazines, Firsts

  8 Copy quote

• I am sure it has been done with less, but you should be prepared to write and throw away a million words of finished material. By finished, I mean completed, done, ready to submit, and written as well as you know how at the time you wrote it. You may be ashamed of it later, but that's another story.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Writing, Mean, Stories

  14 Copy quote

• We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty of nature breaks out; we find he is not what we thought, and begin to suspect that every person exceeds our power of measurement.

  Charlotte Mason

  Break Out, Measurement, Unexpected

  21 Copy quote

• Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Teacher, Children, Intellectual

  16 Copy quote

• Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest… Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.

  James Webb Young

  Mistake, Ideas, Criticism

  9 Copy quote

• Serve God, and God will take care of you. Submit to His will, trust in His grace, and resign yourself into His hands with the assurance that the Lord is well pleased with those that hope in His mercy.

  Gardiner Spring

  Hands, Grace, Care

  Gardiner Spring (1813). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.222

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• With Material for the Spine, I am interested in alloying a technical approach to the processes of improvisation. It is a system for exploring interior and exterior muscles of the back. It aims to bring consciousness to the dark side of the body, that is, the ‘other’ side, or the inside, those sides not much self-seen, and to submit sensations from them to the mind for consideration.

  Steve Paxton

  Dark, Self, Mind

  28 Copy quote