submission

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
78f9e34	I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.	men equality women-s-rights self-determination independence women freedom reason empowerment superiority submission experience gender	Charlotte Brontë
f631a85	Love is giving up control. It's surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two--love and controlling power over the other person--are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.	sex marriage relationships romance submission	Rob Bell
7704ab1	These girls with old gents don't do it despite the age--they're drawn to the age, they do it for the age. Why? In Consuela's case, because the vast difference in age gives her permission to submit, I think. My age and my status give her, rationally, the license to surrender, and surrendering in bed is a not unpleasant sensation. But simultaneously, to give yourself over intimately to a much, much older man provides this sort of younger woman with authority of a kind she cannot get in a sexual arrangement with a younger man. She gets both the pleasures of submission and the pleasures of mastery.	submission	Philip Roth
27625fe	You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.	risk motivation submission	Charles Dickens
b43eb2e	A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.	submission	George Eliot
505a67a	In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what happens if I can't forgive myself for making that choice? And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? What am I supposed to do? Conclusion: It'd be best if I'm destroyed. The best thing is for me just to vanish.	suicide submission regret	Natsuo Kirino
6de9616	Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and the people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedoms.	submission hypocrisy tyranny	Edward Gibbon
f5ddfe0	Besides, the story is ambivalent and mysterious in its ending. Is this Alkestis returning from down below? Why does she have a veil over her face? Could it be that when we forcefully bring back to life what has been lost through love what we get is only a shate of its former reality? Maybe we can never succeed fully in restoring the soul to life. Maybe she will always be veiled and at least partially shielded from the rigors of actual life. Love demands a submission that is total.	death love submission	Thomas Moore
bd4ab7f	Obedience appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace.	submission	Philip Zaleski
c1eaa56	"{ }	integrity coop credulity divines dreadful catholic-church luminous martyrs christendom catholic sages believers catholicism submission cruelty realization church shame lie contempt ritual ugly hell	H.G. Wells
b7988e5	"I want a son with you," he said huskily. "I want a houseful of children." Her eyes sketched his face. "Dark-haired little boys with green eyes...." He crushed her mouth under his, roughly, hungrily, possessively. "Don't tempt me," he said tightly. "I want you like hell." "I wouldn't stop you," she said softly. "Anything you want, Garet. Anything."	submission	Diana Palmer
995e6d5	If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline.	holiness submission	Elisabeth Elliot
8c64af4	John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world.	submission	George Eliot
2346be9	Each thing that obeys law [has] the glory and isolation of the anarchist.	submission	G.K. Chesterton
a83801e	Kings can only use their best tools.	softhearted submission	T.H. White
8d31c65	Man can attempt to become one with the world by submission to a person, to a group, to an institution, to God. In this way, he transcends the separateness of his individual existence by becoming part of somebody or something bigger than himself, and experiences his identity in connection with the power to which he has submitted.	submission self power	Erich Fromm
05b225c	He left to do whatever editors do.	unity leadership supervision submission	Bill Bryson
9613336	Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.	rebellion influence maturation submission	Joseph J. Ellis

78f9e34

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

men equality women-s-rights self-determination independence women freedom reason empowerment superiority submission experience gender

Charlotte Brontë

f631a85

Love is giving up control. It's surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two--love and controlling power over the other person--are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

sex marriage relationships romance submission

Rob Bell

7704ab1

These girls with old gents don't do it despite the age--they're drawn to the age, they do it for the age. Why? In Consuela's case, because the vast difference in age gives her permission to submit, I think. My age and my status give her, rationally, the license to surrender, and surrendering in bed is a not unpleasant sensation. But simultaneously, to give yourself over intimately to a much, much older man provides this sort of younger woman with authority of a kind she cannot get in a sexual arrangement with a younger man. She gets both the pleasures of submission and the pleasures of mastery.

submission

Philip Roth

27625fe

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

risk motivation submission

Charles Dickens

b43eb2e

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

submission

George Eliot

505a67a

In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what happens if I can't forgive myself for making that choice? And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? What am I supposed to do? Conclusion: It'd be best if I'm destroyed. The best thing is for me just to vanish.

suicide submission regret

Natsuo Kirino

6de9616

Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and the people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedoms.

submission hypocrisy tyranny

Edward Gibbon

f5ddfe0

Besides, the story is ambivalent and mysterious in its ending. Is this Alkestis returning from down below? Why does she have a veil over her face? Could it be that when we forcefully bring back to life what has been lost through love what we get is only a shate of its former reality? Maybe we can never succeed fully in restoring the soul to life. Maybe she will always be veiled and at least partially shielded from the rigors of actual life. Love demands a submission that is total.

death love submission

Thomas Moore

bd4ab7f

Obedience appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace.

submission

Philip Zaleski

c1eaa56

"{ }

integrity coop credulity divines dreadful catholic-church luminous martyrs christendom catholic sages believers catholicism submission cruelty realization church shame lie contempt ritual ugly hell

H.G. Wells

b7988e5

"I want a son with you," he said huskily. "I want a houseful of children." Her eyes sketched his face. "Dark-haired little boys with green eyes...." He crushed her mouth under his, roughly, hungrily, possessively. "Don't tempt me," he said tightly. "I want you like hell." "I wouldn't stop you," she said softly. "Anything you want, Garet. Anything."

submission

Diana Palmer

995e6d5

If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline.

holiness submission

Elisabeth Elliot

8c64af4

John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world.

submission

George Eliot

2346be9

Each thing that obeys law [has] the glory and isolation of the anarchist.

submission

G.K. Chesterton

a83801e

Kings can only use their best tools.

softhearted submission

T.H. White

8d31c65

Man can attempt to become one with the world by submission to a person, to a group, to an institution, to God. In this way, he transcends the separateness of his individual existence by becoming part of somebody or something bigger than himself, and experiences his identity in connection with the power to which he has submitted.

submission self power

Erich Fromm

05b225c

He left to do whatever editors do.

unity leadership supervision submission

Bill Bryson

9613336

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.

rebellion influence maturation submission

Joseph J. Ellis