My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field ... I could not answer.
General Douglas MacArthur
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If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Julia Cameron
Kang tortured people into surrendering their artworks. People were gunned down trying to flee across the barbed-wire land border into Hong Kong with canvasses strapped to their chests and calligraphy wrapped around their legs.
Tuyet Nguyet
It was Anne's good sense, calmness and motherliness that enabled her to talk this guy down and then to surrender.
Cliff Herberg
To the Japanese, only dogs were lower than soldiers who would surrender. We buried 500 Americans in blankets at one place along that road.
Delbert Moore
We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Surrender to the spirit of the age.
Os Guinness
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Vince Lombardi
To cooperate and expose the terrorists who committed the heinous killing and mutilation of bodies and surrendering them to face justice.
Massoud Barzani
Intel is not going to just surrender the server market. We have seen that several times before. (AMD) starts executing, makes a lot of money and then, boom -- Intel reacts.
Mona Eraiba
I told him he didn't have that kind of time to surrender, ... The best thing he could have done for his son is to come in right away, because too much bad can happen when he was on the street wanted for murder charges.
Derrick Johnson
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
Remy De Gourmont
There is a great difference between surrender and capture, ... Surrender means we have to give Pol Pot safe conduct. We have to capture him alive.
Prince Norodom Ranariddh
It is not enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining such a source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.
Ramana Maharshi
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash...Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Miguel de Cervantes
She was shot in the forehead. She was told to surrender but laid down a field of fire. She was killed protecting her patients and nurses, fending off the heavily armed U.S. Army with an old Chinese SKS single-shot rifle.
Fred Whitehurst
Canada requires that as a precondition for addressing Innu grievances, we must acknowledge that our homeland belongs to the Crown. All that remains to negotiate are the terms in which we are to formally surrender it.
Armand Mackenzie
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
George Santayana
If the Bank of Japan decides not to end [its present policy] this week, that may create the impression that the Bank of Japan is surrendering to political pressure and add some additional downward pressure to the yen.
Takashi Kudo
Have a chance during the coming hours to lay down their weapons and surrender.
Hazem Sha'alan
If he doesn't defend, do we surrender to the government?
Harold Williams
I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.
Bede Griffiths
Sir, the object of the Flagg, which crossed the River, was to propose a cessation of hostilities for one hour for the purpose of entering into a negotiation for the surrender of Detroit.
William Hull
I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.
Cedric Hardwicke
[When he heard that victory had been declared, he was more than happy.] I thought, 'Thank God they dropped the bomb. Maybe the SOBs will surrender and the war will be over and I can go back to school,' ... It was a great relief for millions of reasons.
Robert Arnold
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
David Seabury
Surrender to what is ultimate. Surrender to what you really are!
Prem Rawal
If they want to show their might, we are ready and we will never surrender before might and force.
Abdul Salam
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
John C. Calhoun
American consumers are enjoying the lowest long distance rates in history, and the lowest Internet rates in the world for one reason: competition. This merger appears to be a surrender. How can this be good for consumers? The parties will bear a heavy burden to show how consumers would be better off.
William Kennard
Maybe they will take us alive or dead. We will not surrender. Our morale is high and we will die as men.
Ahmed Saadat
I think what she has done is find something which is at a level that she can deal with without surrendering her integrity on the one hand and without surrendering her priesthood on the other.
Michael Hill
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Isaac Asimov
[If Abbas is] going to collect the guns, that means a war without mercy, ... It's impossible to surrender our guns and to enter the Palestinian Authority jails again.
Mahmoud Zahar
Nobody can feel better than the man who is completely taken in. To be intelligent may be a boon, but to be completely trusting, gulible to the point of idiocy, to surrender without reservation, is one of the supreme joys of life.
Henry Miller
This was a triumph for him here briefly, and he thought he was on a roll, ... Then he discovered as he moved south into New York that things were not going to go so easily for him. He was outmanned and outmaneuvered at the two battles of Saratoga and he was forced to surrender.
John Burnham
As he came across the deck, tapping the deck with his cane, the entire ship was absolutely silent. And the sound of him coming to surrender his country -- tap, tap, tap -- affected me greatly. And my vindictive feelings about him vanished.
Carl Mydans
Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever - On his surrender to Gen. Howard.
Chief Joseph
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.
Bede Griffiths
I don't see how he is a flight risk, especially when we are willing to surrender both of his passports and his green card.
Alphonsus Ezeoke
He feels extremely apologetic about the entire incident and wants to make it absolutely clear that he is not above the law. Surrendering whatever rights is just a part of that apology to make sure the public understands that he in no way is above the law.
Rod Shealy
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.
Jim Morrison
Never surrender opportunity for security.
Branch Rickey
[PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - James Starnes will never forget the day World War II officially ended with Japan's formal surrender. He was only 24 on Sept. 2, 1945, when Japanese officials boarded the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay and signed the documents.] It was a tremendous emotional moment, ... It was such a relief to know that war was over, that peace had come.
James Starnes
When you claim to prosecute a war in the name of 'human rights' - a humanitarian war - you deprive yourself of the possibility of negotiating a cessation of hostilities with your enemy. If the enemy is a torturer, the enemy of the human race, there is no alternative but the extremes of total war and unconditional surrender.
Paul Virilio
If Radovan Karadzic does not surrender, he must be arrested.
Dragan Cavic
No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
Henry Fountain Ashurst
The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
John Jakes
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
They have to come in and maybe they will take us alive or dead. We will not surrender.
Ahmed Saadat
I think that when we take guests on board, they do not automatically surrender their rights to privacy, and they've asked their names not be released and we're honoring that.
Craig Quigley
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
William Booth
Unlike most notes, it did not say, 'Do not surrender your convictions just to reach a verdict,' ... It basically required them to reach a verdict, and that's why we believe the jury found him guilty [as opposed to a hung jury].
David Barron
In 1960, ... the Cape looked like an oil field, with towering structures, dirt, and asphalt roads newly carved out of the palmetto scrub. The alligators were reluctantly surrendering to the onslaught of newly arrived civilization. If you didn't have a good sense of direction, you were in trouble.
Gene Kranz
That was a concession we made. We didn't want them because the general said it was a sign of surrender.
Charlie Rogers
My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.
Bing Crosby
All those who are propelled to do these acts must stop or surrender because it would be better for them and their salvation. There is no crime more heinous than this.
Prince Nayef
There is a choice. There is no excuse for giving up on Britain. We are surrendering to the European Union our ability to run our own affairs.
William Hague
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
Gail Sheehy
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Octavio Paz
The market has a very strong undertone to it and would seem reluctant to surrender too much of its recent gains. Very strong and robust turnover yesterday ventures to suggest some serious commitment to the market place.
David Buik
They made orders for him to put the rock down and surrender and he raised the rock up over his head as if to strike the child again. At that point, officers opened fire and struck the suspect.
Wayne Delk
He looked at both me and my partner right in the eyes and took his life. Apparently, he was going to surrender, to be honest with you.
Tim Mcnulty
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.
Martin Buber
Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.
John Mccain
That's why if we don't put officials of high quality to work in these areas, I know what's going to happen. The politicians will all surrender because they don't want fires in their neighborhoods.
Julien Dray
I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.
Jim Gilmore
Our nation does not surrender to blackmail.
Alvin Hellerstein
These are things that need to be dealt with, because in the final analysis, if we surrender our precious civil liberties, the things that make this nation great, then indeed the terrorists have won.
Mahdi Bray
We are not going to surrender. We are going to face our destiny with courage.
Ahmed Saadat
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.
Nathaniel Branden
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
Dan Quayle
The president should name the best-qualified and proven constitutionalist to replace O'Connor as soon as Judge Roberts is confirmed, regardless of sex, race or ethnicity. The American people will decide the consequences of partisan politicians trying to intimidate the president into surrendering his constitutional duty.
Jan Larue
As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.
Martin Van Buren
Our choice is to fight or to die. We will not surrender.
Ahmed Saadat
The Orlando Police Department tells us that this pair had no plans to surrender. In fact, two attempts to pull them over went unnoticed.
Samantha Knapp
There's a lot of construction down there. He heard on the radio that a man had been injured, and then he called me, and then I immediately arranged to surrender him that Saturday morning.
Richard Muir
The only way he doesn't show up here is if he's in jail there. There is a huge difference between surrendering and having a warrant out for your arrest. He has to appear in Atlanta or everything gets a lot worse.
David Hayakawa
I think now more than ever we need a reason to celebrate. It's really at our core. I can't imagine the city rolling over and playing dead and saying, 'I surrender.
Arthur Hardy
The resident set the house on fire. A SWAT team fired a less-than-lethal beanbag round, causing him to surrender.
Loretta Jones
When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.
Lou Gehrig
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
John Enoch Powell
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Sir Winston Churchill
We are not saying that none of our fighters are surrendering but with that big number, that is not true.
Gregorio Rosal
Mladic is within the reach of the government in Belgrade and we cannot wait anymore for him to surrender himself. It is obvious now that he will never surrender. So he must be arrested.
Florence Hartman
We prayed for the families. We prayed that he would get tired of running. We prayed that he would give himself up and we prayed that it would be a peaceful surrender, and that's how it happened.
Troy Robinson
There is no need to offer a reward for him to surrender. I believe he will do it on his own with the help of his friends in the administration and opposition.
Prospero Nograles
There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that, far from being a dangerous, bewitching force, sleep will become domesticated and serve as an instrument of our power to act. We surrender to sleep, but in the way that the master entrusts himself to the slave who serves him.
Maurice Blanchot
She wanted to surrender soon after the crime, but because she was pregnant, she was afraid she'd have to have an abortion or have the baby in jail. She didn't want that to happen. She had the baby, but then was worried the boy would go to an orphanage.
Robert Axelrod
The bottom line about the report is that it shows that Safe Surrender is working. The word about the program is getting out there and mothers are making the right choice when they feel the need to abandon their newborn.
David Sommers
I don't believe that there was any kind of surrender because we are not ready and we will never be ready to surrender Kosovo as an integral part and spiritual cradle of the Yugoslavian nation.
Vladislav Jovanovic
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
Irving Wallace
We will not surrender and we will fight with courage. We will face our fate together with the Palestinian people bravely.
Ahmed Saadat
He will be traveling to Memphis and voluntarily surrendering (Tuesday) and then we'll know what the allegations are and the whole deal.
Kirt Webster
There are two big lessons if we fight Saddam. One is that there has to be unconditional surrender. And also, if the Bush administration is [going to] make Iraq into a democracy, [there will] have to be the will to stay there.
Michael Beschloss
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.
Genpeter Pace
The trick is to surrender to the Phlow!
Trey Anastasio
If you are thinking about surrendering a dog to the animal shelter, we ask that you keep it in your home for another 10 to 14 days until the parvovirus outbreak is over.
Laura Danis
The most dramatic realization was that in surrender I would find more freedom and power than I'd ever known.
Brett Butler
It is a surrender to a whole wish list of IRA demands. It is certainly not accepted or acceptable to me and I don't believe it's a peace deal.
William Ross
So if you're in another state, what you do is surrender your AAA membership card in lieu of payment. This doesn't jeopardize service; if you get a flat later, they can look up your membership number.
Paul Gonzales
There's something very sexy about being submissive. Because your guard is down, you have to totally surrender to something like that.
Eva Longoria
It gives you life, but you can't hold on to it. You can't breathe indefinitely. We need to surrender to the fact that all efforts at permanence are hopeless. No structure we can build will protect us from the contingencies of life. But in the midst of that impermanence is the incredible gift of life.
Ecclesiastes
People don't have to leave (babies) in dangerous areas. They can safely surrender them.
Estella Olguin
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