Zitat des Tages über Kapitulation / Surrender:
There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.
The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.
Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own. Beware lest you fight a rearguard retreat against the evidence, grudgingly conceding each foot of ground only when forced, feeling cheated. Surrender to the truth as quickly as you can.
Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past.
That first year after a child, I kind of just hunker down at home - I surrender to that side of me. I don't try to get my body back or be in the world; I go the opposite way.
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.
Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
I don't believe that a female character needs to surrender her femininity in order to be an action hero.
To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.
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 personal secret.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.
Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Surrender to the flow.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
It took me a while to learn the true meaning of patience and surrender, but I have finally accepted that healing doesn't happen on our schedule. It doesn't have a clock or a calendar.
Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who died of a cerebral hemorrhage or massive stroke on April 12, 1945, only three weeks before the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces he had laid down as implacable Allied policy two years before.
I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.