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" Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops. "

George Pierce Baker

" After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war. "

" 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. "

" All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. "

" A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. "

" And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat? "

" 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

" As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved. "

Henry L. Stimson

" At some point, you just learn to surrender to your path. "

" A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action. "

" Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that any part of the Confederate army was near, there was great excitement over the demand for surrender. "

James Longstreet

" 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. "

" Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender. "

" Choosing to write a play is some kind of surrender. I don't make an outline. I sit and work, and suddenly the door opens, and out it comes. "

" Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. We've treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part. "

" Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do. "

" Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" 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. "

" Ending wars is very simple if you surrender. "

" Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender. "

" Every role is a new form of surrender. "

" God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender. "

Walter Annenberg

" God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. "

" Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. "

" If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less. "

" If we show people that fear isn't actually the place that we have to surrender to, fear isn't actually the thing that we have to answer to, but instead, it's going in and loving people. "

" If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments. "

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender. "

" I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that. "

" I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender. "

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