Surrender Quotes

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
Barney Frank

Government, After, Here

Never surrender opportunity for security.
Branch Rickey

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
Abba Eban

Peace, History, War

Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.
Hun Sen

Commit, Pot, Captured

And, if we lost, then who win? Did Al Qaida win? When on the floor of the House of Representatives they cheer - they cheer - when they pass a withdrawal motion that is a certain date for surrender, what were they cheering? Surrender? Defeat?
John McCain

Lost, Win, Defeat

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.
Martin Van Buren

Life, Two, Days

I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.
Joe Arpaio

Government, Elected, Refuse

V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific.
Doc Hastings

Fighting, Victory, Date

Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.
John McCain

Fight, Stand, President

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.
George P. Baker

Self, Play, Drama

You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together.
Robert Englund

Together, Bit, Freddy

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.
Bede Griffiths

Love, Experience, Mother

Telling purposeful stories is interactive. It's not a monolog. Ultimately, purposeful tellers must surrender control of their stories, creating a gap for the listener(s) to willingly cross in order to take ownership. Only when the listener(s) own the tellers' story and make it theirs, will they virally market it.
Peter Guber

Control, Story, Order

My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.
Bing Crosby

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

There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative.
Joichi Ito

Made, Fighting, Until

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.
Chuck Hagel

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved.
Henry L. Stimson

War, Leaving, Before

What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.
Lou Gehrig

Good, Yourself, Bad

Surrender to the flow.
Mike Gordon

The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.
Robert Toombs

Together, Principles, Mutual

Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that any part of the Confederate army was near, there was great excitement over the demand for surrender.
James Longstreet

Great, Before, Excitement

It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.
Wilfred Burchett

Living, Whatever, Necessary

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.
Jenna Dewan

Trust, Path, Rather

Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast.
Bradley Chicho

Soul, Sky, Pink

I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files.
Whitfield Diffie

Control, Thought, Choice

Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past.
Peter Pace

Future, Past, Give

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.
Peter Pace

Leadership, Battle, Between

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
John Jakes

After, Her, Land

Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
Ione Skye

Deep, Real, Remembered

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