Relinquish Quotes

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

I never feel like I`m in control. There`s a certain type of actor that relinquishes control when they act, and then there`s another type who ends up being a producer and director and they`re more someone that likes to take control. I fall in the first category, where I like to relinquish control, and fit into somebody else`s world. And that`s just lately, but you never feel like you are making choices. You feel like they`re finding you in a strange way. That`s why when people say, "What role do you want to play next?", I say, "I don`t know". I never know. It`s about responding to things rather than planning.

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.

So that`s the biggest obvious difference. The other one is that you`re dealing with a concept that forces you to relinquish your ability to believe.

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.

Minnesota will have to wait their turn, ... We`ll relinquish our jurisdiction over him upon completion of our criminal case.

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

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

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

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.