"So this notion somehow that these irreversible tides have been unleashed, I think, surrenders our agency.
The problem today is that the modern GOP thinks about compromise in the same way that imperial Japanese soldiers thought about surrender in the second world war.
Some months later, a messenger from Eastern arrived at my office with a huge basket of fruit, delicacies and half-bottles of wine to which was attached a note from the president saying, simply, and rather sweetly, I thought, "We surrender".
Don't think of surrender as giving in, surrender means to offer no 'inner resistance' to the flow of life within you, without any judgments.
She thought about surrendering to the grief.
Drained of emotion and thought, we surrendered to the refuge of sweet harmony.
The city held out for a while, but as food began growing short, the inhabitants gave thought to surrendering.
I thought I "surrendered" before, but never like this... Either way, no matter what happens, I'm happy to get it off my chest and stop "trying" so hard.
But the more he thought about surrendering his script to another director ("I thought a woman should direct it"), the more he realized that no one else could capture the tone - that mix of grisly horror and outrageous comedy - that he had in mind.
But do not let others know everything you think, never surrender that, no matter how passionate you may be, how anxious for love.
