Subdue The Flesh Quotes

#1. It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.

Benedict Of Nursia

#2. It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.

P.T. Barnum

#4. I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#5. One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

Andrew Mason

#6. A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

Austin O'Malley

#7. The Bible would not have told us to take up the whole armor of God in order to withstand evil if evil could have been withstood without doing that.

Stormie O'martian

#8. Failure was being used as a weapon, rather than as an agent of learning.

Ed Catmull

#9. She pulled off the ring. So that was what he wanted. I honestly expected something grander.

Sarah J. Maas

#10. While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

Robert Rauschenberg

#11. Nothing will ever replace the feeling I got when Jesse Orosco
struck out Marty Barrett
to end the game (Game 7 of the 1986 World Series) and I got the opportunity to run out into his arms. To me, that was the greatest accomplishment. Without a doubt, that was my biggest thrill.

Gary Carter

#12. I am the rightful heir to the flaming global throne of evil. I WILL TAKE THIS WORLD AS MINE, so if you people could just cooperate it would be very nice.

Jhonen Vasquez

#13. A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

George Eliot

#14. The security officer smiled and said, 'Good afternoon, ma'am,' to me before I
gave him ID."
"It's a sick world, Eve." He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. "A sick,
sad world.

J.D. Robb

#15. He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great, nor too small tasks; for the first will make him dejected by often failings; and the second will make him a small proceeder, though often by prevailings.

Francis Bacon

#16. Of course there's pressure, and it's still there with every book. Each one is harder to write than the last, basically because you're always trying to write a better book. You won't always succeed, of course, but that has to be what you're shooting for.

Mark Billingham

#17. In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.

Iris Johansen

#18. The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life.

Thomas Dooley