Submit Quotes

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I`ve been told that if I`d lose weight I`d have more work, but I refuse to submit myself to those standards. To the rest of the world, I`m slim, and I like the way I am.

- Liv Tyler

There were times when I would get mad at him (Viggo Mortensen) because he would push me harder. There was a weekend when I got really sick and had a horrible flu, and that was my one and only day to sleep and recover and not work. We were supposed to go horseback riding together and I cancelled it because I wasn`t feeling well, and Viggo gave me a really hard time about it. So I went, and it was one of the greatest days of my life. It was actually the one time, while I was riding, that I really broke through to the other side with the canter and becoming more comfortable on the horse. I had a beautiful day and am incredibly grateful to Viggo for pushing me further. He taught me so much about that, about really being willing to submit and submerge yourself into making the film and the character work.

- Liv Tyler

"I was raised to believe that you had to do things better than white people in order to succeed. The old black shows were better than the white shows. The Jeffersons was a lot better. Good Times was way funnier. Sanford and Son. Now, though, everyone thinks we`re equal, so we submit the same s... that everyone else submits. And then we get mad when they won`t air it. You got to go back to the old attitude of it has to be twice as good."

- Chris Rock

When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it`s the way the director wants it.

- Ashley Judd

We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python`s Flying Circus. I didn`t have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went.

- Terry Gilliam

Nobody`s going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

- Lauryn Hill

I just have always felt that I think we know that it`s an ensemble show, and it`s very hard to pick a show to submit when you`re nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

- Patricia Heaton

I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

- Smokey Robinson

When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn`t have to answer to anybody, and we didn`t have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it.

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.

- Nora Roberts

What`s natural to human beings is to submit to the will of the Creator. The reason I say I reverted to Islam is because I believe I`ve reverted back to that natural human state.

- Robert Webb

I would like to submit that `private` means anything to which the public does not have access to by right.

- Doug Christie

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

- Kate Smith

If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it`s going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.

- Bruce Dickinson

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

When a sales representative takes it to the client, they can present the illustration and all information is saved. After they close the sale they can submit the case back along with the scenarios they used back at the office.

- Chris Rice

Kris has never really had a mother, she`s always been the mother. That whole definition of mother is a new thing for her, so it`s a power struggle. Does she submit, or does she fight? A big part of her wants to be loved so badly. It`s hard, because she has to challenge that. She`s never been loved. She`s been hurt very badly.

- Genevieve Padalecki

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

- Victor Hugo

I respectfully submit that the alleged abuses by President Clinton do not indicate that he is a danger to the nation, ... Lying to the public and to his cabinet and aids is disgraceful, but if we would impeach all officials who lie about personal or official matters, I fear that the halls of government would be seriously depleted.

- James Hamilton

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

- John Calvin

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

- John Calvin

I don`t conquer, I submit.

- Giacomo Casanova

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

- G.K. Chesterton

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I`m very happy I didn`t submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

- David Eddings

I am ready to face all the charges against me. I always submit myself to the rule of law,

- Joseph Estrada

Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

- Fannie Hurst

But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.

- George Pataki

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.

- A. Townsend Peterson

I submit to you that if a man hasn`t discovered something he will die for, he isn`t fit to live.

- Adam Quinton

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

- Adam Quinton

The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

- Agnes Deng

I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.

- Aidan O'Rourke

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

- Al Aldridge

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

- Alan Herbert

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God`s commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

- Alberto Bernal

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - `voluntarily` sell - himself every day and hour to the `beast of property.`

- Alice Schwarzer

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President`s judicial nominees.

- Alisa Gravitz

I now add, farther, that the apostle`s argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

- Allan Moss

Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.

- Allan Skinner

Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad.

- Allen Feldhaus

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else`s control.

- Alli Macko

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

- Alton Greene

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

- Amr Moussa

I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the ground and who run the machinery and equipment, are sending a signal: You asked us to do something. Give us some time and we will solve the problems and we will do it.

- Amy DePuy

On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers.

- Andrae Hernandez

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.

- Andrew Lochart

The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.

- Andrew Marone

I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.

- Andrew Norwood

Agencies submit proposed rules for publication in the Federal Register. After a period for public comment, usually 60 days, final rules that carry the force of law may be published.

- Andy Shaw

I will never submit to fight beneath that banner with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

- Ann Evans