Relinquish Quotes

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
Jessica Lange

Mother, Children, Become

Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
Fran Lebowitz

Him, Telling, Hotel

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Age, Truth, Freedom

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Peace Pilgrim

Age, Great, Cannot

Only in death will I relinquish my belts.
Manny Pacquiao

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
Jean Cocteau

Lives, State, Comfort

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman

Happiness, Future, Control

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Neil Young

Time, Short, Seems

Never relinquish the initiative.
Charles de Gaulle

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Evening, Control, Film

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
Franz Grillparzer

Different, Before, Laws

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone.
Adrien Brody

Difficult, Phone, Surprised

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
Ulrich Beck

Done, Others, Problems

We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.
Kjell Magne Bondevik

Society, Vision, Humane

Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.
Isabel Yosito

Love, Heart, Hand

I was brought in by the White House as GM's chairman in 2009, around the time of the bankruptcy, and became CEO later that year. As a company, we were grateful for the government's support. But as GM's financial health began to improve, I could detect no real sense of urgency, or even interest, on the part of the government to relinquish control.
Edward Whitacre, Jr.

Time, Health, Government

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
Naomi Wolf

Women, Become, Ask

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