Quotes with submit

  • The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
  • We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
  • Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

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  • Mme de Stael A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
    Mme de Stael
    French-Swiss novelist and essayist (1766 - 1817)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Martin Luther King I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Bruce Dickinson If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bethany Hamilton It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Thales of Miletus Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
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  • Bob Inglis So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is.
    Bob Inglis
    American politician (1959 - )
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  • Plato Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Edmund Burke The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • William Hazlitt The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Breyten Breytenbach The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Edmund Burke The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Abigail Adams The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
    Letter to John Adams (27 November 1775)
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Billy Sunday The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
    As quoted in "Leaving the fold: testimonies of former fundamentalists" by Edward T. Babinski, Prometheus Books, 1995, p. 435
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Anna Howard Shaw Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Horace Walpole To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
    Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27-05-1776)
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes - our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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