Top 100 Quotes About Submission
#1. Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.
Tom Paulin
#2. The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.
William Penn
#4. Pain is not the most important tool in Dominance and submission, yet it is a most worthy tool. Pain breaks down barriers and defences. And for intensifying the orgasm? There are few superior devices a Dom has to achieve such, other than varying degrees of pain.
Nikki Sex
#5. Submission was such a nice mini-vacation, in that respect, a pleasure cruise through sex with heightened senses and emotions, and no thought to the outside world until.
Abigail Barnette
#6. Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.
Camille Paglia
#7. Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.
Marquis De Lafayette
#8. If you submit an
article to a major refereed clinical journal and it is accepted
upon first submission without a single revision, let me
know and I will take you to dinner the next time you are in
Portland, Oregon.
Robert B. Taylor
#9. But the blots, Turkey," intimated I. "True,-but, with submission, sir, behold these hairs! I am getting old. Surely, sir, a blot or two of a warm afternoon is not to be severely urged against gray hairs. Old age-even if it blot the page-is honorable. With submission, sir, we both are getting old.
Henry James
#10. submission would be, because I'd really earned it." "Oh, please. You have so many rules, your rules have rules. Any woman who dared to date you would need an encyclopedia-sized book to keep up.
Lisa Renee Jones
#11. Feeling something was never simply a state of submission but always, also, a process of construction.
Leslie Jamison
#12. I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.
John Barton
#13. 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
#14. This time his voice comes from the left and I hear his footfall moving around my body as I obey. Suddenly I am all limbs, stretching out to please him. I am absurdly vulnerable and beyond aroused. I want him now.
Felicity Brandon
#15. Suffering is not good in itself. What is good in any painful experience is, for the sufferer, his submission to the will of God, and, for the spectators, the compassion aroused and the acts of mercy to which it leads.
C.S. Lewis
#16. We have had the morality of submission, and the morality of chivalry and generosity; the time is now come for the morality of justice.
John Stuart Mill
#17. The outside world will never understand that submission is not subjugation to another person, it's letting yourself be free of all those things that hold you back from experiencing the greatest sexual pleasures.
Michelle Hughes
#18. I love being under submission to my husband ... I believe in keeping the male ego intact.
Tammy Faye Bakker
#19. King= a man who excels in inflicting injury to others until he terrorizes everybody into submission
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#20. Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.
Paulo Freire
#21. I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
Charles Spurgeon
#22. Godliness rests in submission to the Almighty's will, not in intercession that seeks to change that will.
D. A. Carson
#23. Reverential human acts of submission and homage before the divine Sovereign, in response to his gracious revelation of himself, and in accordance with his will.
Dan Block
#24. A karate black belt would make a great blindfold on a kidnap victim, after you karate chop them into submission.
Jarod Kintz
#25. For two people to commit themselves not simply to marriage, but to a lifetime of mutual love and submission in imitation of Christ is so astounding, so mysterious, it comes close to looking like Jesus' stubborn love for the church.
Rachel Held Evans
#26. Bottoming doesn't make you a submissive any more than standing in my kitchen makes you a cook. By the way, while you're there, please make me a sandwich.
Michael Makai
#27. It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.
Larry Hagman
#28. God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.
Paul David Washer
#29. Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.
Samuel Johnson
#30. The spirit of submission is choosing His way over ours for His sake.
K.P. Yohannan
#31. You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.
Charles Dickens
#32. The minister was an honest man so far as he knew himself and honesty, and did not relish this form of submission. But he did not ask himself where was the difference between accepting the word of man and accepting man's explanation of the word of God!
George MacDonald
#33. I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. What song would lull a snake into submission? "John Mayer?"
"Over my dead body."
"Could be, Tim, could be.
Gini Koch
#35. Submission is not an occasional event. It is a lifestyle. It isn't a negative obligation on women, but the natural outworking of the gospel in every Christian's life. Submission is an attribute of Jesus, so it ought to show up in all of his followers.
Carolyn Custis James
#36. Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
Ernestine Rose
#37. Resentment is often a woman's inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility - that of making choices.
Brenda Waggoner
#38. He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him. -
Watchman Nee
#39. There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.
Joseph Conrad
#40. There's no love in you because there's no sex in you. Sex is light and fertility and life and communication! You only have this ... pornography and submission and blackness and death! You're like a faggot!
Mary Gaitskill
#41. Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Simone Weil
#42. Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?
William Booth
#43. Love is giving up control. It's surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two - love and controlling power over the other person - are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
Rob Bell
#45. The gentry's jurisdiction over the peasantry was restored. The universities were closed to the children of the lower classes; the radical literary periodicals were banned; the nation, including the intelligentsia, was to be forced back into mute submission. Revolutionary
Isaac Deutscher
#46. The gospel of Jesus Christ must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the Good News of redemption. The truth is revealed in God's Holy Word; life can be lived only in absolute and disciplined submission to its authority.
Charles Colson
#47. Submission to duty and God gives the highest energy. He, who has done the greatest work on earth, said that He came down from heaven, not to do His own will, but the will of Him who sent Him, Whoever allies himself with God is armed with all the forces of the invisible world.
James Freeman Clarke
#48. I threw in the obligatory "if it be Your will" at the end. That tagline may sound spiritual, but it was less a submission to God's will and more a profession of doubt. If you aren't careful, the will of God can become a cop-out if things don't turn out the way you want.
Mark Batterson
#49. If you remove Al Sharpton's blackness, he disappears. He's transparent. There's nothing there because he bases his whole life on his blackness. Me, I'm a black man; but my blackness has submission to my Christianity.
Ken Hutcherson
#50. Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a man to greatness.
Maya Banks
#51. Calm down," comes a voice, and it's not Razor's. I rip my focus away from the water and there's a man [Pigpen] with blond hair and a cut like Razor's slowly approaching the bridge. His hands are up - a sign of submission. "Just calm down.
Katie McGarry
#52. Today, in the face of abjection and solitude, his heart said: 'No'. And in the great distress that washed over him, Mersault realised that his rebellion was the only authentic thing in him, and that everything elsewhere was misery and submission".
Albert Camus
#53. I suspect alligators never get arm-barred; dinosaurs where probably safe from the submission as well, at least the T-rex.
Mark Johnson
#54. The natural consequence of our submission, even in part, to the system that looks to compelling the export of raw products, the exhaustion of the land, the cheapening of labour, and the export of the labourer.
Henry Charles Carey
#55. From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
Michel De Montaigne
#56. One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others.
Vincent De Paul
#57. I wanted to let my conscience go, and see how deep I fall.
I wanted to let the devil take over, and see if I survive.
I love you, Mriga. And for you, I will die.
Tonight.
Prashant Chopra
#58. Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.
Robert Kennedy
#59. The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
Camille Paglia
#60. These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.
Theodore Roosevelt
#61. Christ honors our submission even when our only motivation is obedience.
Beth Moore
#62. Will we ever understand the price of ambition, or ever apply our heart to life with submission?
Francisco Leon
#63. Because the Western church has emphasized the work Jesus did for us as Savior rather than His position as Lord, lack of submission to His position of authority creates a significant fault in our foundation. Hear
John Bevere
#64. To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.
Gillian Flynn
#65. I married a man who isn't afraid to wash a dish, scrub a toilet, or have his unibrow waxed into submission by a licensed professional.
Jen Lancaster
#66. I'm sure you can manage from here, and without a further word, he walked out of her room, then let himself out of her flat.
M.F. Roberts
#67. I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively, instead of skeptically and dictatorially.
E.B. White
#68. Stupid that everyone in his case
Is praising his particular opinion!
If Islam means submission to God,
We all live and die in Islam.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#69. There's something sexy about a naked woman gritting her teeth in pain, even when it shouldn't be sexy.
Travis Luedke
#70. Submission and obedience to one man is the routine of the slave-minded, empty-headed, personality devoid bland people!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#71. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
Anais Nin
#72. What was that?"
"Really excellent sex."
"You were trying to sex me into submission."
"Did it work?" A lazy grin as he turned to look at her. "I was just trying to be me.
Nalini Singh
#73. The hardest and greatest thing a human being can do is submit to his Creator.
Habeeb Akande
#74. Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements.
Gene Sharp
#75. So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.
Amy Waldman
#76. submission. I must not sleep with it wet. I must not sleep with it wet.
Anonymous
#77. The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.
Neal A. Maxwell
#78. If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission.
John C. Calhoun
#79. I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.
John Updike
#80. Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#81. Was it cruel if someone asked for it? Begged for it, even? She always begged. Even now, I could hear her whimpering for me. Christ, those noises she made. A one-way ticket to heaven.
A. Zavarelli
#82. Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#83. Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already only too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.
Luc De Clapiers
#84. My new and improved Golden Rule: Dom unto others as you would have God Dom unto you.
Michael Makai
#85. [Suffering] brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the sweet juices of the vine; so it is affliction that draws forth submission, weanedness from the world, and complete rest in God. Use afflictions while you have them.
Robert Murray McCheyne
#86. Our knees get dusty from time to time, but when they touch the ground, we must never allow the dust to convince us that our submission in that moment is the acceptance of our defeat for an entire lifetime.
A.J. Darkholme
#87. Alcohol-inspired fights ... are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.
Alain De Botton
#88. This isn't submission." "Isn't it?" "No." He looks up at me, tired as well, but he's never looked more beautiful to me than in this moment, strong and open and unafraid like when he surrenders his body. "It's love.
Alexis Hall
#89. Can't you nudge her into submission? (Taryn)
Are you kidding? As stubborn as she is? I'd fry my brain trying. (Sphinx)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#90. Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
Charles Caleb Colton
#91. The Warrior Princess Submissive is - at least in my humble opinion - quite possibly destined to be the hope and salvation of the D/s lifestyle from an ever-increasing wave of attacks by a small cadre of radical feminists and misandrists who seek to equate D/s with misogyny.
Michael Makai
#92. Submission to something you didn't preach yourself is no good, I quote. Because Man must burst his ridiculous bonds, which consist of what is supposedly current reality with a prospect of a future reality of scarcely any greater value.
Elfriede Jelinek
#94. She made the beast rear its ugly head. Stirred fantasies in my mind I would have never otherwise entertained. Owning her wasn't enough. Controlling her didn't douse the inferno blazing inside me.
A. Zavarelli
#95. Submit to your pain; don't suppress your pain.
Bryant McGill
#96. Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.
John Flavel
#97. Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.
J.G. Ballard
#98. To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.
Aleister Crowley
#99. Submission doesn't mean weakness; it means exploring your wants and desires and being strong enough to give control of yourself to someone else.
Melinda Barron
#100. No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission.
Steven J. Lawson
