#succumb

For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift. ↗

— Michael Milken

#did #even #father #gift #i

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did. ↗

— Sally Ride

#did #encouragement #friends #got #i

I succumbed to hedonism. ↗

— Simon Le Bon

#succumbed

When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend. ↗

— Rachel Zoe

#good #interpret #like #look #never

Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#against #always #been #done #i

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death. ↗

— Kit Williams

#death #happy #hoop #jump #life

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#endangered #false #false modesty #fidelity #inconsistent

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#building #business #chief #chief executive #companies

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like. ↗

— Mike Myers

#beautiful #like #looking #media #message

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#never #succumb #temptation