#submit

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it. ↗

— Thales

#more #must #necessity #nothing #over

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

#anybody #force #going #i #me

For the first time in my life, I fully realized that I was not in charge. I knew that I needed to submit to Heavenly Father's will. I couldn't have what I wanted when and how I wanted it just because I was keeping the commandments. The purpose of prayer was not to tell Heavenly Father what to do, rather to find out what He would have me do and learn. I needed to align my will with His...Prayer is less about changing our circumstances and more about changing us. It is about seeking His will and asking for His help to do what we need to do." June 2013 Ensign, "Improving Your Personal Prayers ↗

— Kevin W. Pearson

#prayer #submitting-to-lord-s-will #trials #change

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me. ↗

— Toby Young

#column #fired #firing #first #got

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#first #i #publications #rejection #rejection slips

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. ↗

— Oliver Herford

#leisure #manuscript #returned #something #submitted

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#hazards #own #submit #surely #take

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

#bbc #circus #days #film #flying

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation. ↗

— Marquis De Custine

#circumstances #complicated #human #human society #mathematical

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

#age #assent #every #formula #reason