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Protesting is fundamentally submissive.
Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.
Turning the other cheek isn't submissive. It's defiant.
Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.
I don't see myself playing the docile, submissive bahu on television!
Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.
I've noticed in the Caribbean culture, the women aren't submissive - they're very fiery.
To truly be feminine means being soft, receptive, and - look out, here it comes - submissive.
People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.
I think 'fan' implies somebody who's submissive, sycophantic, in awe of everything you're doing.
Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way
Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.
My life is not as dramatic as it is depicted in the shows. I am not at all submissive. I am free-spirited.
The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.
Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.
You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty.
Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
I don't like to be too submissive in the way I dress. I like quite boyish things, so I hardly ever wear high heels.
It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.
Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.
Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?
We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
My biggest challenge will be to play the totally submissive woman. It takes a toll on you when you play someone who's far removed from your personality.
The pencil you leave it there, and it's dead. It doesn't do anything and it doesn't move by itself. It doesn't offer anything; it's totally submissive to you.
Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.
I think, especially growing up in the South, we are taught that women are supposed to be soft, gentle and kind of just goes along with everything and is submissive.
One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.
The Asian woman in Hollywood movies has usually been one of two extremes - totally submissive or totally ruthless. In either case her primary function has been decorative.
I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.
I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.
I am not a passive person, but I chose to fall into a more submissive role in our relationship because I wanted to do everything in my power to make my marriage and family work.
When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.
And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That's how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living.
'Al Jamilat' is not just feminist. It's an album with songs that feature women: women who are in love, rebellious women, political activists, women who are more submissive, women who are in charge.
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
We're coming into a new generation of women where there's the submissive woman, and then our reaction to it is, 'No, I'm a man, too, and I'm masculine,' and then we fight against it, which isn't the answer, either.
In slave times the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the frequency and severity of the scourging, but, with freedom, a new system of intimidation came into vogue; the Negro was not only whipped and scourged; he was killed.
In short, Christians in general are everywhere denominated the servants and the children of God, and are required to serve him with that submissive obedience, and that affectionate promptitude of duty, which belong to those endearing relations.
There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.
We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.
We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why we must repent and come to Christ daily on submissive knees so that we can prevent our bonfires of testimony from being snuffed out by sin.
Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of His children and that only He knows the way. That is the testimony we must have to keep praying like a submissive child, in the good times as well as the times of trouble.
I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background is more about the director being in control. It's all about yielding. It's an oddly submissive relationship in which you're moulded, Pygmalion-style.
I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.
Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.