Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Peace Pilgrim
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.
Franz Grillparzer
Dear is your heart and close your hand, I relinquish all to love's dysmorphic command.
Isabel Yosito
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
Jean Cocteau
In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
Fran Lebowitz
Never relinquish the initiative.
Charles de Gaulle
The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
Ulrich Beck
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
Jessica Lange
To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
Naomi Wolf
To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.
Neil Young
We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman
You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone.
Adrien Brody
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