Relinquishment Quotes

#1. Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all

Thomas Kuhn

#2. Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

Samuel Johnson

#3. involve self-denial or giving-up of something. Relinquishment or tyag is the real content of renunciation

J.M. Mehta

#4. Good counsel: generosity, longevity, acceptance, relinquishment, letting the world come to me
and, with these things to make a life.

Richard Ford

#5. Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.

Patrick Henry

#6. Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

Shirley Jackson

#7. Full engagement and full relinquishment in every moment is the dance of dances.

Ross Hostetter

#8. It's never easy letting go. But if we don't learn the art of relinquishment, we'll never move forward to embrace the new relationships God has for us.

Mary E. DeMuth

#9. relinquishment is prerequisite to fulfillment,

Eugene H. Peterson

#10. Longing for death and wishing for it weren't exactly the same thing. Robert longed for a peaceful relinquishment from this life. What the man holding the gun offered was nothing of the sort. Robert

Drew Avera

#11. Relinquishment of burdens and fears begins where adoration and worship of God become the occupation of the soul.

Frances J Roberts

#12. Not of exhaustion, but surrender, as though he had given over and relinquished completely that grip upon that blending of pride and hope and vanity and fear, that strength to cling to either defeat or victory, which is the I-Am, and the relinquishment of which is usually death.

William Faulkner

#13. Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me.

Christina Westover

#14. I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.

James Vincent McMorrow

#15. Solid-fuel rockets can't easily be shut down on command.

Henry Spencer

#16. The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts.

Woody Hayes

#17. In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#18. I hate American History after 1850.

Emma Iadanza

#19. Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet

Albert Einstein

#20. I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

Leo Tolstoy

#21. Was that his name? I never had a chance to ask. He was too intent upon tearing out my throat for us to engage in idle chitchat.

John Connolly

#22. Was there no one to help? He instinctively bowed his head and prayed. A warm feeling engulfed his battered body. "I'm not alone, I will never be alone. God is with me

Mark A. Cooper

#23. Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.

Marshall McLuhan

#24. On a globe it looks like a swollen California. Within that space, though, are twenty-thousand-foot peaks, the world's deepest canyon (twice as deep as the Grand Canyon), unmapped Amazon jungle and the driest desert on earth.

Mark Adams

#25. People don't believe that any politician is any different from any other one.

Justin Trudeau