Quotes of Subdue - somelinesforyou

“ Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. ”

- George Lois

“ I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self. ”

- Aristotle

“ Do not suppress it — that would hurt you inside. Do not express it — this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it. ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ It is easier to repress the advances of tyranny at first, than to destroy it when once established. ”

- Solon

“ You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you. ”

- Isadora Duncan

“ In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. ”

- Learned Hand

“ If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. ”

- Moliere

“ Subdue your passion or it will subdue you. ”

- Horace

“ The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him. ”

- William Carleton

“ It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system. Clearly there is more certainty in the recognition of wrongs than there is in the prescription for their cure. ”

- William Sloane Coffin

“ As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips. ”

- Fred Allen

“ What passion cannot Music raise and quell? ”

- John Dryden

“ I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. ”

- Stephen Harper

“ It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Who, apart From ourselves, can see any difference between Our victories and our defeats? ”

- Christopher Fry

“ There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger. ”

- Saul Bellow

“ Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ My liver swells with bile difficult to repress. ”

- Horace

“ Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. ”

- Karl Marx

“ If pleasure is what you want, do not suppress the desire. Seek it intelligently. ”

- Huston Smith

“ It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score. ”

- John Enoch Powell

“ In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. ”

- Les Brown

“ To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. ”

- Frederick Douglass

“ We have to do everything we can to defeat. ”

- Paul Bremer

“ You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. ”

- Horace Walpole
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