Succumbing Quotes

• Conformity is the only real fashion crime

  Simon Doonan

  Fashion, Real, Conformity

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• We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Temptation, Sin

  Fuente: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Yield, World, Sometimes

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques”, p.116

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• Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.

  LeCrae

  Hurt, Giving, Temptation

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• Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what they find, succumbing to an intangible beatitude that takes them for a brief escape into another dimension. Both sorts of gardener are besotted; both get their hands dirty; think and talk gardening; but on the threshold of another's garden, each use a different set of whiskers.

  Mirabel Osler

  Funny, Dirty, Moving

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• Ver con los propios ojos, sentir y juzgar sin sucumbir al poder sugestivo de la moda del momento, ser capaz de expresar lo que uno ha visto y sentido en una frase ágil o incluso en una palabra astutamente elaborada, ¿no es eso glorioso? ¿No es un tema apropiado para la congregación?

  Albert Einstein

  Fashion, Eye, Judging

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• It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but then so can the tango - particularly if you're dancing alone.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking, Dancing, Narcissism

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• While others are engaged in inferior and menial tasks in which they encounter many difficulties, how can I sit here at peace and do nothing? I must and shall benefit them, but without ever succumbing to the poison of self-importance.

  Shantideva

  Buddhist, Self, Encounters

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• El reino del terror al que se sometió Francia ha sido calificado más justamente como "el reino de la cobardía". No se sabe a quién execrar más, si a la nación que pudo someterse a sufrir tales atrocidades, o a ese demagogo bajo y sanguinario que pudo infligirlas. Francia, al sucumbir ante un miserable como Robespierre, exhibió, no su paciencia, sino su pusilanimidad.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Suffering, Atrocities, Reign

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). "Lacon: O muchas cosas en pocas palabras, dirigido a los que piensan", p.70

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• Ellos [los templarios] habían leído a Avicena, y no eran ignorantes, como los europeos. ¿Cómo se podía convivir durante dos siglos con una cultura tolerante, mística y libertina sin sucumbir a su encanto, sobre todo si se la comparaba con la cultura occidental, que era tosca, vulgar, bárbara y germánica?

  Umberto Eco

  Dos, Ignorantes, CulturaOccidental

  Umberto Eco (2007). "El péndulo de Foucault", p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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• I mean, full stops are quite important, aren't they? Yet by contrast to the versatile apostrophe, they are stolid little chaps, to say the least. In fact one might dare to say that while the full stop is the lumpen male of the punctuation world (do one job at a time; do it well; forget about it instantly), the apostrophe is the frantically multi-tasking female, dotting hither and yon, and succumbing to burn-out from all the thankless effort.

  Lynne Truss

  Jobs, Mean, Effort

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• People are going through tough times. I want to say to them, "Live your joy." I know I can tell them that because I went through a lot of hard times. I had a choice of either succumbing to the hard times or figuring it out.

  Bonnie St. John

  Hard Times, People, Choices

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• It is not death that I'm apparently now succumbing to, but the rapid diminishment of lifeforce from this body of mine.

  Dan Quayle

  Body, Rapids, Mines

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• La ficción de terror parece engendrar más "reglas" estúpidas que cualquier otro tipo de escritura, y una de las más estúpidas es el supuesto "requisito" de un final enrevesado, que se remonta hasta H.H. Munro. Esta historia es también el resultado de una larga reflexión sobre cómo las historias a veces se hunden o disminuyen por sucumbir a tales "reglas".

  David J

  Escritura, Largos, Giros

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• Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we shut down and hide out in our houses, succumbing to infotainment and the ease of an available latte, turning off our brains and emotions. Books breed desire.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Art, Book, House

  "The Urgent Matter of Books" by Lidia Yuknavitch, therumpus.net. May 03, 2011.

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• Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Believe, Comforting, Fairy Tale

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• There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.

  Ann Patchett

  Amor, Besar, Dos

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• I believe I am becoming pathetic. I'll go further, I believe that I am in love with a flower-growing, wood-carving quarryman/carpenter/pig farmer. In fact, I know I am. Perhaps tomorrow I will become entirely miserable at the thought that he doesn't love me back - may, even, care for Remy- but at this precise moment I am succumbing to euphoria. My head and stomach feel quite odd.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Believe, Flower, Pigs

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.210, A&C Black

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• I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me.” I’m not hitting on you,” he protested. No?” Believe me, you’d know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn’t be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Volleyball, Believe, Player

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!

  Terry McMillan

  Greatness, Sabotage

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• Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

  Sam Harris

  School, Men, Our World

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is succumbing to fashion fascism.

  Simon Doonan

  Fashion, Real, Identity

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• The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction. Holders of the priesthood have that authority and should employ it to combat evil influences.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Evil, Addiction, Influence

  "Cleansing the Inner Vessel". Article by Boyd K. Packer, www.lds.org. 2010.

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• El hecho de que el hombre produzca un concepto "yo" además de la totalidad de sus experiencias o percepciones mentales y emocionales no prueba que deba haber ninguna existencia específica detrás de tal concepto. Estamos sucumbiendo a ilusiones producidas por nuestro lenguaje autocreado, sin alcanzar una mejor comprensión de nada. La mayor parte de la llamada filosofía se debe a este tipo de falacia.

  Albert Einstein

  Philosophy, Men, Emotional

  Robert N. Goldman, Albert Einstein (1997). "Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God" (El Dios de Einstein: la búsqueda de como científico y como judío para sustituir a un Dios abandonado), Jason Aronson Incorporated.

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• In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.

  Bob Barr

  Government, Generations, Done

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