Subduer Quotes & Sayings

She had a right to his arm, though it was without feeling. He would give her, who was so simple, so impulsive, only twenty-four, without friends in England, who had left Italy for his sake, a piece of bone. — Virginia Woolf

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people. — Simone Weil

What is planted in each person's soul will sprout. — Rumi

It is a misconception that the innocent sleep well. The worse a man is, the more profound his slumber; for if he had a conscience, he would not be a villain. When — Elizabeth Peters

People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile. — Frederick Lenz

A recently deceased American Zen master and navy veteran, John Daido Loori, used to say that those who think Buddhism is just about stillness end up sitting very silently up to their necks in their own shit. — Mark Epstein

We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes the winning and losing, the succeeding and failing, the "I will achieve." All that stuff becomes so preoccupying, particularly if you're born with low self-esteem, or no sense of yourself, or even if you're just born in the consumer culture. It's very powerful. — Eve Ensler

The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist. Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious. — Walter Benjamin

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself. — Johann Gottfried Herder

Don't put the material first, for you have to live with yourself a long, long while! Become acquainted with yourself. Know yourself and the relationship to the Creative Forces. — Edgar Cayce

I never want to feel like I've achieved my goal. It's like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it's a good season. They feel like they'll be punished. — Heath Ledger

All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it. — Alan Cohen

We was doing a lot of what our officers called "maneuvering" - which is officer talk for running — David Eddings

If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile. — Augusta Jane Evans

I like 'Goodbye My Lover' because it's a really personal song and I recorded it in my landlady's bathroom in Los Angeles. She had a piano in there and for me listening back to it, it actually sounds like the voice I hear in my head. It's so close to what I can imagine. — James Blunt

Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug. — Benjamin Franklin

Hope is affirmation of beliefs. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love
this hunger of the heart
as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world. — George Eliot