subduing QUOTES

1 " One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful. "

― Sun Tzu

2 " When people’s parallel truth collides with their real truth, they may have a hard time in subduing all the fanciful items and characters of their invented world. (“The day the mirror was talking back”) "

― Erik Pevernagie

3 " Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. "

― Benjamin Franklin , Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings

4 " As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature. "

― Elena Ferrante , The Story of a New Name (The Neapolitan Novels #2)

5 " Only the king that has succeeded in subduing his senses is competent to resist his foes. "

6 " She walked away without bothering to look further. She knew he’d be fine. Her specialty was subduing without causing any real damage. He’d lie there for a few minutes. He’d be sore, maybe bruised tomorrow. He’d brush the cobwebs off his imagination to invent a story for his buddies about how three seven-foot, three-hundred-pound male karate black belts attacked him in the park.

But she would bet her life on the fact that he would never sneak up on another fragile-looking woman without remembering this night. And that was the point. That was what Gaia lived for. "

― Francine Pascal , Fearless (Fearless, #1)

7 " The purpose of subduing is a function of taking responsibility for the entire earth "

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8 " The voice welling up out of this little man is terrific, Harry had noticed it at the house, but here, in the nearly empty church, echoing off the walnut knobs and memorial plaques and high arched rafters, beneath the tall central window of Jesus taking off into the sky with a pack of pastel apostles for a launching pad, the timbre is doubled, richer, with a rounded sorrowful something Rabbit hadn't noticed hitherto, gathering and pressing the straggle of guests into a congregation, subduing any fear that this ceremony might be a farce. Laugh at ministers all you want, they have the words we need to hear, the ones the dead have spoken. "

― John Updike , Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)

9 " The kingdom is often limited to the hearts of the regenerate, heaven, or the eternal state. This virtually denies that the messianic kingdom has anything to do with this present earth. In contrast to this tendency, Scripture makes it abundantly clear that this earth, although not the source of the kingdom, is a part of the kingdom. Christ's messianic authority and reign extend over all of heaven and earth (Matt. 28:18), and He is in the process of subduing all of His enemies, whether in heaven or on earth (1 Cor. 15:25). "

10 " What social-media really becomes after years of use is a constant stream of information both verbal and visual that at first drenches the mind, quenching its thirst for knowledge, and subduing its curiosity slowly but surly transforms into a torrent that renders the brain heavy and the mind restless. "

― Aysha Taryam