#submit

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#ancestors #around #arrogant #classes #dead

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them. ↗

— Fannie Hurst

#enjoy #few #functions #gesture #goodwill

You were told how much space so it was a matter of whether you could send in two paintings or three paintings, you know, pending where the show was being held. You did submit work to be accepted. Once you were accepted that was it. You did your own selection of what went in. ↗

— Lee Krasner

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I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

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The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#banks #before #bible #blood #filled

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#exact #exact measure #find #imposed #injustice

For the first time in my life, I fully realized that I was not in charge. I knew that I needed to submit to Heavenly Father's will. I couldn't have what I wanted when and how I wanted it just because I was keeping the commandments. The purpose of prayer was not to tell Heavenly Father what to do, rather to find out what He would have me do and learn. I needed to align my will with His...Prayer is less about changing our circumstances and more about changing us. It is about seeking His will and asking for His help to do what we need to do." June 2013 Ensign, "Improving Your Personal Prayers ↗

— Kevin W. Pearson

#prayer #submitting-to-lord-s-will #trials #change

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#adapted #already #been #best #conviction

I don't conquer, I submit. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#i #submit

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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