#relinquish

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

— Jean Cocteau

#comfort #ecstasy #height #hermit #his

Never relinquish the initiative. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#never #relinquish

Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don't really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#always #assistant #control #daughter #fight

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#bravery #control #courage #life #life-and-living

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

#anything #before #claims #else #enlightenment

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things. ↗

— John Thorn

#big-time #dream #few #finally #get

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

— Naomi Wolf

#become #relinquish #sexuality #their #them

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

— Isabel Yosito

#command #dear #hand #heart #i

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

#going #our #period #protect #relinquish

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

— Franz Grillparzer

#different #different people #i #laws #myself