Top 61 Submits Quotes
#1. Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject ... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.
Susan Sontag
#2. Death submits to no one.
Homer
#3. Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
Charles Caleb Colton
#5. No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every man, worthy of the name, will row long against wind and tide before he allows himself to cry out, 'I am baffled!' and submits to be floated passively back to land.
Charlotte Bronte
#6. He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#7. A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
Edwin Louis Cole
#8. 935Join the minority that sees a clear path out of present darkness, that never submits to fear and despair, and that does its part to lead everyone out of crisis into a future full of light.
Deepak Chopra
#9. One turns back and submits to fate, changes one's attitude, and finds peace in perseverance.
Hellmut Wilhelm
#10. Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.
Georges Bernanos
#11. The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence Durrell
#12. Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.
Honore De Balzac
#13. The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in a fellow creature, he rises in some measure above the person who give the command.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#14. Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine
#15. Unconfusion submits
its confusion to proof; it's
not a Herod's oath that cannot change.
Marianne Moore
#16. When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. There is no divinity achieved unless the individual mind submits itself to a mind supposed supreme. The Bible in its simplest form is simply that - a book. When you give it your mind it becomes powerful.
Dew Platt
#18. Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#19. The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.
Frank Herbert
#20. What is there to say about love ? You could sweep up all the words and stack them in the gutter and love wouldn't be any different, wouldn't feel any different, the hurt in the heart, the headachy desire that hardly submits to language. What we can't tame we talk about.
Jeanette Winterson
#21. When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.
Hudson Taylor
#22. The fearful person wilts and submits to what they call fate. The fearless negotiates with fate for a compromise.
Bryant McGill
#23. 8. I have told you that it is I. Here we see how the Son of God not only submits to death of his own accord, that by his obedience he may blot out our transgressions, but also how he discharges the office of a good Shepherd in protecting his flock.
John Calvin
#24. I manage to hold the poker face when she submits to dominance, to the summons, and swans into my arms, pressing her quivering form against mine when she embraces me.
Poppet
#25. Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
Maria Edgeworth
#26. Trees don't live in the sky, and clouds don't swim
In the salt seas, and fish don't leap in wheatfields,
Blood isn't found in wood, nor sap in rocks.
By fixed arrangement, all that live and grows
Submits to limit and restrictions.
Titus Lucretius Carus
#27. Spanking is about pleasure, not pain, and contemporary couples of my acquaintance swap positions so that she has a turn at spanking and he submits to her loving hand. He does not have a clitoris, of course, but an erection heated by a good spanking is firmer and lasts long into the night.
Chloe Thurlow
#28. The European generally submits to a public officer because he represents a superior force; but to an American he represents a right. In America it may be said that no one renders obedience to man, but to justice and to law.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#29. For me, literature is the daughter of music: a bit heavy and more level headed than its mother. Literature submits to the same principles of successive perception, which allows it to build progressively.
Dumitru Tepeneag
#31. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Is the ground worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.
Rumi
#32. Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
Andre Gide
#33. The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. His mindfogs. His will power vanishes. He submits decently. He scarcely gives a damn.
H.L. Mencken
#34. First of all, the evangelical is one who is entirely subservient to the Bible. This is true of every evangelical. He is a man of one book; he starts with it; he submits himself to it; this is his authority.
David Lloyd-Jones
#35. Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy.
Martin Luther
#36. The womanist prophetess submits herself to God as a text to be read, indicted, and transformed so that she in turn can be a revolutionary, transformative force in the world.
Mitzi J. Smith
#37. Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one - so mortals hate him most of all the gods. Let him bow down to me! I am the greater king, I am the elder-born, I claim - the greater man.
Homer
#38. Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.
Samael Aun Weor
#39. A wife is to submit graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ.
Mike Huckabee
#40. Does not simply contain God's word: it becomes God's word for anyone who submits trustfully and in faith to its testimony.
Hans Kung
#41. Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.
Friedrich Ratzel
#42. I don't think anybody submits their first story and sells right away.
Ann Leckie
#43. Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#44. The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?
Rumi
#45. Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#46. I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam.
Wole Soyinka
#47. But the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favour, and reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.
Samuel Johnson
#48. With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject's conscience, do not really transform his conduct.
Jean Piaget
#49. When I paint, I liberate monsters They are the manifestations of all the doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience One does not choose the content, one submits to it.
Pierre Alechinsky
#50. You forget who submits, Eva," he said gruffly. "I've given up control for you. I've bent and adjusted for you. I'll do anything to keep you and make you happy. But I can't be tamed or topped. Don't mistake indulgence for weakness.
Sylvia Day
#51. He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.
Robert Herrick
#54. fear is the enemy of God's people, for a man who submits to it will stop submitting to God.
Patrick Robertson
#55. Reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye in time is accommodated to darkness.
Samuel Johnson
#56. A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
Honore De Balzac
#57. The wife who submits to sexual intercourse against her wishes or desires, virtually commits suicide; while the husband who compels it, commits murder.
Victoria Woodhull
#58. The pride never leads, never submits, and never leaves.
Akiane Kramarik
#59. Where is God to be found? In suffering or in rebellion? When is a man most truly a man? When he submits or when he refuses? Where does suffering lead him? To purification or to bestiality?
Elie Wiesel
#60. Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.
Jeremiah Burroughs
#61. He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?
Alexis De Tocqueville
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