Top 100 Quotes About Surrendered
#1. Incredible, searing, glorious heat consumed her. Coherent thought eluded her. She could not think. She could not speak. With a helpless gasp of pleasure, she surrendered. Her arms twined around his neck, clutching him to her.
C.L. Wilson
#2. Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.
Beth Moore
#3. Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
James F. Byrnes
#4. Without God putting His finger into my world; I would be devastated and more depress than I am now in. In fact I could have committed suicide; not saying am not thinking about it every now and then. I have surrendered my hope to God to make my life better than it is now.
Temitope Owosela
#5. I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.
Otto Ohlendorf
#6. Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary
Karl Marx
#7. Heaped up on the blankets, our bodies bound by weariness and her deep slumber, surrounded by sickness and hope, death and defiance, I touched the soft surrendered curl of Karla's sleeping fingers to my lips, and I pledged my heart to her forever.
Gregory David Roberts
#8. Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.
Edwidge Danticat
#9. This is just how they want you, an animal, a bitch with swollen udder lying in the dirt, blank-faced, surrendered, reduced to this meat, these smells ...
Thomas Pynchon
#10. The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
James A. Michener
#11. According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptableso that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than expected, it was as if they emerged from a dream, a flash-back, a lost epoch
an epoch when the enemy still had a body and was still like us.
Serge Daney
#12. It is only the fully surrendered heart that can fully trust God for all that He has promised.
Andrew Murray
#13. And as any man does when faced with the raw terror of emotion, he surrendered to his wife and buried his thoughts below the anvil of his heart.
Jason Mott
#14. When people become more reliant on multinational corporations than on their own communities, they surrendered whatever say they had in their government. Corporations are growing stronger while democratic government becomes increasingly helpless.
Daniel Suarez
#15. Courage comes from a surrendered heart,a prepared mind, and a good conscience.
Deborah J. Johnson
#16. They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.
Ellen Hopkins
#17. The greatest human attainment in all the world is for a life to be so surrendered to Him that the name of God Almighty will be glorified through that life.
Kathryn Kuhlman
#18. One of two things must be done. Either surrender because you admit your inability and require a higher power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery by going to the source and merging into the Self. Either way you will be free from misery. God never forsakes one who has surrendered.
Ramana Maharshi
#19. To be surrendered to God is of more value than our personal holiness.
Oswald Chambers
#20. In my other books, things do happen, but they are kind of bookends to the real action, which for me was an exploration of consciousness. Not that I don't get into the consciousness of the people in 'The Surrendered,' but you could say there's not as much anxiety about it.
Chang-rae Lee
#21. The big fun in 'Battleship' is that there are no current battleships in the Navy today. The battleships are about 1,000 feet long and they have huge guns. They were what you saw in WWII. The last battleship that was used was the Missouri, which is what the Japanese surrendered to.
Peter Berg
#22. In business news, chocolate maker nestle is buying Jenny Craig. Well, that says it all you need to know about the war on obesity, doesn't it? It's over! Apparently we surrendered!
Jay Leno
#23. I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.
E. Stanley Jones
#24. Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs.
Michael Josephson
#26. I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.
Edward O. Wilson
#27. Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
Fulton J. Sheen
#28. Salutations and congratulations upon the victory of Bardia! If I may debase a golden phrase, "never has so much been surrendered by so many to so few". The
Winston S. Churchill
#29. I fought against it for months; but the best thing I ever did was when I surrendered my will, and let the will of God be done in me.
D.L. Moody
#30. I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.
Patti Smith
#31. The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#32. Beauty is a willing loss of mental control, surrendered to organic process that is momentarily under the direction of an exterior object. The object is not thought and felt about, exactly. It seems to use my capacities to think and feel itself.
Peter Schjeldahl
#33. This is now the twelfth day of rioting in France. They have been rioting for almost two weeks. And France has still not surrendered. That's like a record.
Jay Leno
#34. When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom, we have surrendered its only real meaning
and we will not be free again until we get it back.
Alan Keyes
#35. Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.
John Adams
#36. When you decide to live a totally surrendered life, that decision will be tested. Sometimes it will mean doing inconvenient, unpopular, costly, or seemingly impossible tasks. It will often mean doing the opposite of what you feel like doing.
Rick Warren
#37. Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
Robin Hobb
#38. She knew that the world was plainly divided into those who fought an unrelenting battle to live, and those who surrendered and died. This was a simple fact.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#39. So often, I felt like my hands and heart knew something I did not, and I surrendered the art to them.
Amy Harmon
#40. Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss.
Martha Beck
#41. The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.
Michael Joseph Oakeshott
#42. I finally came to the decision that I couldn't do it like that anymore. So I surrendered to that. I did (the Sabbath reunion tour) without anything - cigarettes, tobacco, dope, anything. And I had so much more fun without it.
Ozzy Osbourne
#43. According to then current laws of war, the besieged could make terms if they surrendered, but not if they forced a siege to its bitter end, so presumably Charles felt no compunctions.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#44. There is a difference in having head knowledge about the Holy Spirit and being surrendered to the Holy Spirit.
Zach Williams
#45. However, in three months of fighting, and with the men who died or surrendered at Przemysl included, the Austro-Hungarian Army has lost nearly 950,000 men killed, wounded, and captured. This
Matt Kersley
#46. For him there is no present; there is only the past of what has been formulated and seen and the future of what has been formulated and not seen. The present is surrendered to the past and the future.
Walker Percy
#47. The sense of duality, which is a barrier to true love, must prevail so long as the apperception of Truth has not occurred. Once individuality is surrendered, there is only total Love.
Ramesh S Balsekar
#48. Once you've surrendered yourself to another, you've been conquered. Surrender = vulnerability. Vulnerability means someone else has the advantage over you. Still interested?
Donna Lynn Hope
#49. He pushed. I yielded. He gave. I took. He captured. I surrendered.
Nina Lane
#50. The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.
Eckhart Tolle
#51. In the real world, he and I could never work. I kissed him just that much harder and pushed all thoughts of why this was wrong to the back of my mind and surrendered to all the reasons it felt right.
Braxton Cole
#52. Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.
Adolf Hitler
#53. The pig was soon dissected and its blood filled the bucket in the bottom of which a patch of sky was reflected darkly. It had surrendered to the vortex of life and his breathing.
Michel Fardoulis-Lagrange
#54. My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
Armistead Maupin
#55. The sons shaped their feet with the shoes of their fathers. To the plight of their mothers, the daughters surrendered their dreams." - "THE RIVER," LARRY D. THOMAS
James Hollis
#56. France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#57. Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up." It's quite the contrary.
Judith Orloff
#58. No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs.
Cesare Beccaria
#59. The Saracens surrendered to Richard. And he had every last one of them beheaded. There was a hill of heads, a hill that grew gradually out of the moat and spilled on to the plain.' Liam looked down at a potato bobbing in his soup and all of a sudden felt a little less hungry.
Alex Scarrow
#60. Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.
Jane Porter
#61. I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
Andrew Wyeth
#62. It will be admitted on all hands, that with the exception of the powers surrendered by the Constitution of the United States, the people of the several States are absolutely and unconditionally sovereign within their respective territories.
Roger B. Taney
#63. Only surrendered Christians will make an impact on our world. The world does not need any more lukewarm Christians, or lazy Christians, or quarrelsome Christians, or doubting Christians, or prideful Christians.
Billy Graham
#64. Surrendered people make great lovers. They can be spontaneous and playful. They love to feel and express all of their emotions. They look vibrant, healthy, and energetic.
Judith Orloff
#65. Even while I resisted, and long before I surrendered, God was working in my life - guiding me, protecting me, and training me.
Tammy L. Gray
#66. Retirement is not the goal of a surrendered life, because it competes with God for the primary attention of our lives.
Rick Warren
#67. With enough use, practice, and honing of skill, words were the weapons of choice used by exceptional writers and poets. Minds can be changed, hearts can be lost and broken, souls can be surrendered given the right words.
Penny Reid
#68. Lastly, she knew one other thing, and this was the most important realization of all: she knew that the world was plainly divided into those who fought an unrelenting battle to live, and those who surrendered and died. This was a simple fact. This
Elizabeth Gilbert
#69. When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.
Elvis Presley
#70. Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.
Archibald MacLeish
#71. Unlike the in-your-face authority of other Doms, Master Jake's power was a lazy riptide, drawing a submissive under his command before she even realized she'd surrendered.
Cherise Sinclair
#72. God often calls surrendered people to do battle on his behalf.
Rick Warren
#73. There is a magic moment, during which a man has surrendered a treasure, and during which the man who is about to receive it has not yet done so. An alert lawyer [read bond trader] will make that moment his own, possessing the treasure for a magic microsecond, taking a little of it, passing it on.
Michael Lewis
#74. Over the years I'd surrendered many vices, among them whiskey, cigarettes, and the various non-Newtonian drugs, but marijuana and I remained steadfast companions.
Michael Chabon
#75. If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#76. Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.
Winston S. Churchill
#77. I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.
Tullian Tchividjian
#78. They'd taken everything. Everything, and people simply had let them. People had meekly surrendered the world to them in hopes those CEOs would finally have enough, finally have reason to leave them be. But Tom knew better.
S.J. Kincaid
#79. I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.
Sakshi Tanwar
#80. If you are still worried, it means, you have not surrendered yet !
Sri Amma Bhagwan.
#81. It was the room of a woman without taste or moderation, who refused nothing and surrendered nothing, to whom the fact of possession had become the one steadfast reality in a world of loss and change.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#82. Skinnider spent seven weeks in hospital and was incredulous that the leaders of the rising were executed. "We had obeyed all rules of war and surrendered as formally as any army ever capitulated.
Margaret Skinnider
#83. I have a request to make,my lord."
He held her gaze; she could see him trying to decide what she might ask, but eventually he surrendered."And that is?"
"Take me to your bed.
Stephanie Laurens
#84. The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered
Dashiell Hammett
#85. For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.
Madeleine Stowe
#86. I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.
Kathryn Kuhlman
#87. The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.
Harlan F. Stone
#88. In an interview, Kim Cattrall said there could be another 'Sex in the City' movie. An hour later, ISIS surrendered - there's only so much they can take.
Conan O'Brien
#89. The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.
Rachel Cusk
#90. Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
Thomas A. Edison
#91. When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#92. The poor wretch, she had given up so much and could yet smile at her trouble. He himself had never surrendered to anything in life - that was what life demanded of you - surrender. For reward it gave you love, this swarthy, skin-deep love that exacted remorseless penalties.
A.E. Coppard
#93. But then one day I finally realized that screaming at God and begging him to take away my pain wasn't going work. So I completely surrendered myself and stopped fighting him and I asked him what he wanted me to do. He said: JUST WORSHIP ME. PRAISE ME AND WORSHIP ME THROUGH THE PAIN. And
Brian Welch
#94. Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
Victor Hugo
#95. You also know you're surrendered when you don't react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You don't edge others out, you don't demand your rights, and you aren't self-serving when you're surrendered.
Rick Warren
#96. Listen, if you're not totally surrendered, you're not playing. It's as simple as that.
Art Hochberg
#97. Welcome the life that takes you off course. A plan derailed, a life surrendered, a broken bondage
Rebekah Lyons
#98. Taking up my cross means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.
Arthur W. Pink
#99. Why is it so? If live is a gift, all that belongs to and is intrinsic to life is going to be a gift. You can wait for it, you can be receptive to it, you can remain in a surrendered mood, waiting, patient, but you cannot demand, and you cannot force.
Rajneesh
#100. She had concealed her hidden desires even from herself, unable to say why, but she needed no answer. It was enough that she had done what she had done. She had surrendered herself.
Paulo Coelho
