Top 100 Quotes About Submission
#1. Do you know about it, Kelsey?" he asked after a while. "Dominance and submission? This thing we're doing? I don't know so good how to explain it. Only how to do it.
Annabel Joseph
#2. Look how He's dusted me off and set me on my feet two hundred and fifty bazillion times. I'm fanatically in love with Him. So if this is true, I need to shed my need-for-everyone-to-like-me coat in favor of His robe of redemption, His mantle of humble submission.
Mary E. DeMuth
#3. There was something capricious about God. How could one expect perfect submission from those who are imperfect? How could one create desire and then expect everyone to pull the plug on it? And if God were capricious, then God was imperfect. If God were imperfect, God was not God.
Jerry Pinto
#4. True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Henry Miller
#5. For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions.
Timothy Snyder
#6. Submission was never meant to be a negative action. Submission is an act of love and service because someone must lead, and the others must follow. Your greatest act of love to your mate is when you submit and that comes in many forms.
Quinn Loftis
#7. Better yet - I'll buy him a dildo with his own money, send it to him, and tell him to go fuck himself
from The Art of Submission by Ella Dominguez
Ella Dominguez
#8. One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell
#9. It also reminds me that true power comes not from submission or gain, but from controlling my inner demons. Because our true enemies live within ourselves and feed from the lessons we failed to learn from our pasts.
J.C. Reed
#10. Islam is not dark but very bright indeed. Islam is not depressing but instead, quite uplifting and inspiring. Islam is not about censoring but instead it is about voluntary submission.
Norhafsah Hamid
#11. Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God
Kevin DeYoung
#12. The cost of freedom is always high, but people have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
#13. Her nerves tingled with a sudden alarm. The pattern didn't speak of love and commitment to her; there was something else there, something darker, something that spoke of control and submission, of loss and darkness.
Cassandra Clare
#15. He couldn't change the past, and he couldn't control the future. But he would beat the present into submission.
Joel Ohman
#16. Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.
Kim Il-sung
#17. Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.
Emma Goldman
#18. I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself and to submit yourself. I'm not really good with submission, so that's the part of marriage and relationships that I've found very hard to deal with.
Tichina Arnold
#19. The message of the Bible is clear: Jesus Christ is Lord! It's a fact. Bringing our lives into submission to His will in everything is the key to being a godly woman. It is also the path to joy.
Barbara Hughes
#20. With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
#21. This was life on the surface of the sea. A calm, placid exterior that could soothe you into submission or swell up and kill you with no notice; beneath it always a dangerous world of life and death.
Kenneth Eade
#22. And Submission is the mate of Dominance. The two are destined for marriage." ~Lucian Bane
Lucian Bane
#23. This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
Alan Hirsch
#24. A person is not religious solely when he worships a divinity, but when he puts all the resources of his mind, the complete submission of his will, and the whole-souled ardour of fanaticism at the service of a cause or an individual who becomes the goal and guide of his thoughts and actions.
Gustave Le Bon
#25. A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane ... ain't gonna get very far!
Jo Linsdell
#26. Most of all, I think it was the novels that saved me from submission. I was young, but the first tiny, meek beginnings of my rebellion had already clicked into place.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#27. Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more important than mere peace on earth? Isn't freedom, even dangerous freedom, preferable to the safest slavery, to peace bought with ignorance, cowardice, and submission?
CrimethInc.
#28. Stoudemire is like Alonzo Mourning and my old teammates Willis Reed and Dave DeBusschere. He's aggressive and make things happen. He's always hustling and muscling, hounding and pounding guys into submission.
Walt Frazier
#29. The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.
Thomas Jefferson
#30. The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they choose without the fear of loss of individuality or submission to uniformity.
Jacque Fresco
#31. They weren't idiots, but I attracted trouble that just begged me to beat it into submission.
Kim Harrison
#32. Do you know what passion is?"
I blink, confused.
"Most people think it only means desire. Arousal. Wild abandon. But that's not all. The word derives from the Latin. It means suffering. Submission. Pain and pleasure, Nikki. Passion.
J. Kenner
#33. Now every time he turned to her, he bent his head, as though he would have fallen at her feet, and in his eyes there was nothing but humble submission and dread. 'I would not offend you' his eyes seemed every time to be saying, 'but I want to save myself, and I don't know how.
Leo Tolstoy
#34. The craft of a master is not imposing dominance, but winning submission.
Ann Somerville
#35. Men often think submission indicates weakness, that letting someone else take charge betrays a character deficit. But we all submit to strangers who drill into our teeth as long as we can see the parchment on their wall which reads Dentist.
Edmond Manning
#36. Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.
Gilles Deleuze
#37. The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student and teacher here is not one of submission, but of a contest for truth.
Karl Jaspers
#38. Once people envisioned the possibility of change in a fixed order, the end of an age of submission came in sight; the turn to individual conscience lay ahead. To that extent the Black Death may have been the unrecognized beginning of modern man.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#39. Sensuality is beautiful, and dominance and submission in the right context is a passionate art. A muse which ignites the flame of femininity, enrapturing both partners in complete euphoria, magnifying both the masculine and the feminine in one tantalizing unit.
Sai Marie Johnson
#40. Mencheres. Bones co-ruler, grandsire, Master vampire of incredible power, and the ally who unnerved me the most, had telekinetically held me down so Bones could boink me into submission enroute to the vampire holding cell? Sweet holy Jesus, let me have hallucinated hearing that!
Jeaniene Frost
#41. The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government
Thomas Jefferson
#42. I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
Jasper Fforde
#43. considerable discussion, the Draft Committee's submission received
R.C. Sproul
#44. It's up to you, Toby, always. But I suppose it comes down to whether you think dominance and submission are about acts or about people." He was quiet for a moment. "I guess I think . . . power is where you put it.
Alexis Hall
#45. The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.
Anne Truitt
#46. hope and fear are just different aspects of the same submission to history. Sitting and istening to the same story, one can hope for a happy ending while another fears a tragedy. Neither is free.
Anonymous
#47. She would, through habit, have yielded to his desire; not with any sense of submission or obedience to his compelling wishes, but unthinkingly, as we walk, move, sit, stand, go through the daily treadmill of the life which has been portioned out to us.
Kate Chopin
#48. The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.
Andy Stanley
#49. I always say to audiences of men: "Cooperation beats submission. Trust me."
Gloria Steinem
#50. So you'll let me exert my will over you. I will gain a great deal of pleasure, joy even, in your submission. The more you submit, the greater my joy ... it's a very simple equation.
E.L. James
#52. Love isn't about forcing submission,Grif. Its about ... doing for the one you love. It's about their happiness over our own.
Belinda McBride
#53. The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.
Charles Spurgeon
#54. Apparently he was supposed to be respectful to potential employers and maintain friendly eye contact while keeping his body language amiable. It was obvious why his tactic of glaring them into submission and demanding a job had not worked.
Santino Hassell
#55. A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.
Robert Smithson
#56. I need your submission too, but only if it's real. If you're really not feeling it, then don't pretend. Make me earn it.
Bianca Sommerland
#57. Genuine relationships are marked by submission even when your choices are not helpful or healthy.
Wm. Paul Young
#58. Religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.
Emma Goldman
#59. Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name?
~Jack or The Submission
Eugene Ionesco
#60. European countries unresistingly submitted to the introduction of general military service
i.e., to a state of slavery involving a degree of humiliation and submission incomparably worse than any slavery of the ancient world.
Leo Tolstoy
#61. She's right, and yet my blood pumps faster, just thinking about having her naked and willingly at my mercy. I can't help but think she's exactly what I need: a challenge. And how sweet her submission would be, because I'd really earned it.
Lisa Renee Jones
#62. It is hard for us to recognize it now, but Peter and Paul were introducing the first Christian family to an entirely new community, a community that transcends the rigid hierarchy of human institutions, a community in which submission is mutual and all are free.
Rachel Held Evans
#63. We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
Jacques Lacan
#64. My submission didn't make me weak, just as David's domination didn't make him a bully; far from it. Outside of the bedroom, David was the kindest man I knew.
Terri George
#65. I want so much from her: her trust, her obedience, her submission. I want her to be mine, but right now ... I'm hers.
E.L. James
#66. [S]ex no longer frightens people; it can no longer be used to develop a sense of guilt, and thereby to force submission.
Erich Fromm
#67. I grasp reality, but sometimes I like to choke it into submission.
Lisa Kleypas
#68. When the early Church recited the Apostles Creed, it was simultaneously their greatest act of rebellion, and their greatest act of submission.
Matt Chandler
#69. My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.
Johnny Isakson
#70. Submission to the experimental data is the golden rule that dominates any scientific discipline.
Maurice Allais
#71. Obedience, submission, discipline, courage
these are among the characteristics which make a man.
Samuel Smiles
#73. These were no-man's-lands, limbos of a sort, places where language did not prevail and the only protection was flight, if you could run fast enough; or submission if you couldn't.
Joyce Carol Oates
#74. Then how unconfident of Itself this Deity was, Who didn't want Its finest creations to know right from wrong; and Who reigned by terror, insisting upon the unqualified submission of even Its closest associates, packing off all dissidents to Its blazing Siberias, the gulag-infernos of Hell ...
Salman Rushdie
#75. Sceptic, mathematician, Christian; doubt, affirmation, submission.
Blaise Pascal
#76. I never really know when anyone is nominated for anything; I just know when people win. I don't even know how the submission process works.
Hosea Chanchez
#77. We might give God our tithing, our material possessions, even our time and talents, but those are not really ours to begin with. They are gifts on loan. What is ours is the only genuine sacrifice we can lay on the altar - total submission.
Toni Sorenson
#78. 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
#79. Truth was she liked that he came after her. She liked the thought of being under submission to him in an intimate way. It was a welcome desire which Wharick alone sparked.
Madison Thorne Grey
#80. The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.
Jonathan Mayhew
#81. Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.
Candace Bushnell
#82. The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.
Newt Gingrich
#83. We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!
Charles Schumer
#84. You give way to an enemy this evil with this much power and you condemn the galaxy to an eternity of submission.
Alexander Freed
#85. There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Eldridge Cleaver
#86. The level of our submission to God will determine our success and prosperity.
Sunday Adelaja
#87. Online submission forms are black holes. Anything
is better than blindly submitting online.
Philip J. Guo
#88. My soul was not only brought into harmony with itself and with God, but with God's providence. In the exercise of faith and love, I endured and performed whatever came in God's providence, in submission, in thankfulness, and silence.
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
#89. The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.
Sara Paretsky
#90. But the supreme teacher in the Church is the Roman Pontiff. Union of minds, therefore, requires, together with a perfect accord in the one faith, complete submission and obedience of will to the Church and to the Roman Pontiff, as to God Himself.
Pope Leo XIII
#91. I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.
Faye Wattleton
#92. Meekness is marked by silence in the face of abuse and infamy, by submission to God's way, which is higher than our way as heaven is higher than the earth, by submissiveness to others for their welfare. It is the source of inexpressible joy and contentment.
V. Raymond Edman
#93. I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity
and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission.
Erich Fromm
#94. Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
Alexander Herzen
#95. Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.
James Bovard
#96. 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
#97. Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others.
Stanley Milgram
#99. A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.
George Eliot
#100. This is what it is to be a muse. I walk the line between want and need, between power and submission. And I make the hard choices.
Cora Carmack
