Quotes of: Surrendering Keyword

The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adult...

J. G. Ballard

To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a ...

Teju Cole

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

Joni: An Unforgettable Story

Put McCall and I together and nothing can stop us." ... That's what he wanted. A woman to stand by him and conquer whatever they set their mind to.

Risky Surrender

She wanted -- needed -- a McCall induced orgasm. And if he kept kissing her like she was the sexiest thing in the world, she might have one in the next half a minute.

Risky Surrender

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

The Stranger's Child

Life is a journey, Frannie darling," Feagan had once told me. "Choose well those with whom you travel." As always, I've followed Feagan's counsel.

Surrender to the Devil

Healthy surrender means allowing yourself to "be" rather than being in a constant state of want.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

There are graceful ways of accessing your purpose and success, with time, invitation, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It wears on a man's confidence.

A Night to Surrender

You’re my home, Susanna. My home, my heart, my dearest love. Wherever you are, that’s where I belong. Always.” - Victor Bramwell, Earl of Rycliff

A Night to Surrender

Lan shook his head sightly "He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

New Spring

Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.

La pista di sabbia

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.

Politics and the English Language

When your ego surrenders to the Higher Self, you become a Human Angel: a radiating center of Light, an active and conscious part of the Uni-versal project of Love.

We are human angels

You need to trust To surrender To ask for guidance Go within for the answers They're within you You have the answers All you need do is ask

The Whisper of Your Soul

This is the FBI Hostage Negotiations Service. Press one if you wish to surrender. Press two for a getaway car. Press three for a helicopter. Press four for a pizza

Medium Dead

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

Oscar Wilde

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 wh...

Peter Berg

To allow oneself to be carried away By a multitude of conflicting concerns, To surrender to too many demands, ...To commit oneself to too many projects, To want to help everyone with everything Is to succumb to violence.

Thomas Merton