Leigh Brackett Quotes

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!

If a man can beat you, walk him.

Democrats have a history of backing away, backing down.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

Come on in girls, and leave all hope behind.

Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being.

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

I don't conquer, I submit.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

Nations like individuals, when driven to choose between desperate courses, might at times be compelled to take the chance of destruction, often destroying themselves or suffering irreparable harm.

Take this and go back. I am conquered.

At last I have won the Spanish war.

There are only two ways to come back from the battlefield: With the head of an enemy or without your own.

The picture of the military situation as a whole showed clearly that the war was lost. As there was also no possibility of effecting any improvement in Germany's overall position by political means, the only conclusion to which I, as Head of the State, could come was that the war must be brought to an end as quickly as possible, in order to prevent further bloodshed.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority..

We now have to see our country surrender to the enemy without demonstrating our power up to 120 percent. We are now on a course for a humiliating peace - or, rather, a humiliating surrender.

If you can't do it, give up!

Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is present to what is over, to turn from that which builds to that which destroys.

Every role is a new form of surrender.

Americans are really good at throwing their hands up and walking away from things.

In regular tournaments, players throw in the towel occasionally for one reason or another.

The desire to abdicate, to give up - for me, that's primal.