Top 28 Submissively Quotes
#1. Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder
which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would submissively obey the most peremptory orders about stance and expression.
Terry Pratchett
#2. He's pushing me, so I push him back.
His cross is rattling in my tongue and jaw. His pulse is beating in my throat. And his mouth is killing everything I'm trying to think.
Simon Snow.
Rainbow Rowell
#3. It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.
Sinead O'Connor
#4. You make it sound as if I hit her. I did nothing to Edie!'
'Oh? You did nothing? The woman I found in your wake, stripped of all self-repsect, convinced that she was a failure as a mother and a lover: that wasn't your work? Because I think it was!
Eloisa James
#5. There was no established procedure for evasive action. All you needed was fear, and Yossarian had plenty of that, more fear than Orr or Hungry Joe, more fear even than Dunbar, who had resigned himself submissively to the idea that he must die someday
Joseph Heller
#7. Many of us do not continue to grow spiritually because we prefer to choose on the basis of our rights, instead of relying on God to make the choice for us.
Oswald Chambers
#8. Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.
Tullian Tchividjian
#9. Strong faith in the Savior is submissively accepting of His will and timing in our lives, even if the outcome is not what we hoped for or wanted.
David A. Bednar
#10. The children were sent to bed. Some went submissively; others with shrieks and protests as they were dragged away. They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice-cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence.
Kate Chopin
#11. And if any of our dear ones die, it must be because it is the will of God, so we ought have fortitude and bear it submissively.
Anton Chekhov
#12. There's an independence to surfing, it's just you and the ocean. There aren't a bunch of rules,
Lee Clow
#13. Women should listen and learn quietly and submissively. I do not let women teach men or have authority over them.
Pat Robertson
#14. But the condemned man looked so submissively doglike that it seemed as if he might have been allowed to run free on the slopes and would only need to be whistled for when the execution was due to begin.
Franz Kafka
#15. Yes, Darkstripe," Firepaw mewed, dipping his head submissively. He turned and muttered "Dirtstripe!" under his breath,
Erin Hunter
#16. We need the Holy Spirit to change our hearts if we are going to be willing to come to God and hear his word submissively.
Vern Sheridan Poythress
#17. I bow my head submissively and see that my chest is heaving, already dotted with the telltale flush of sexual arousal.
Donna George Storey
#18. Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.
Henry David Thoreau
#19. By 1680 Giovanni Borelli had reached the conclusion, in his book De Volatu, that it was impossible that man should ever achieve flight by his own strength.
Frederick Hugh Sykes
#20. Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
C.S. Lewis
#21. Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem. If I don't love something, I stop doing it. I don't love acting anymore, so I've stopped doing it.
Amanda Bynes
#22. I like the concept that if you're with someone, it's for the long term.
Stana Katic
#23. If you ever lay a hand on me. Slap me, hit me, grab me, push me, anything. I'm gone. I'll leave you and never come back.
Scott Hildreth
#24. The thing about families is that you rarely get to choose them since you tend to be born into one and be a part of it. The family, on the other hand, tends to choose you and become a part of you, whether or not you grow to like it or will yourself to want.
Tristan Wood
#25. Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
William O. Douglas
#26. Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#27. Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#28. I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.
Seth MacFarlane
