#surrenders

I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that. ↗

— James Douglas

#always #amount #came #certain #felt

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#always #becoming #child #christmas #day

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be. ↗

— Ivo Andric

#end #something #surrenders

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#still #surrenders #universe #whole

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders. ↗

— Ben Stein

#defeated #enter #even #finished #human

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. ↗

— Lord Acton

#authority #before #both #country #deny