Capitulation Quotes

“I will gladly deal with the inconveniences that may attend living my life as I see fit, rather than be the kind of man who would forsake his own desires in order to seek or preserve the acceptance of lesser men.

~ Dave Champion”
― Dave Champion

“But you find—surprise—that you like this capitulation from her, this helpless acceding, from the most recent embodiment of all the girls over all the years who've given you nothing, not even a curious glance. Welcome to the darker side of love.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Wild Swan: And Other Tales

“The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the blatantly worshipful look in the eyes of a twelve-year-old, anxiously raised to his, was new to him, and it pierced his defences. He was capable of giving the coolest of set-downs to any gushing female; and the advances of toadeaters he met with the most blistering of snubs; but even as he realised how intolerably bored he would be in Soho he found himself quite unable to snub his latest and most youthful admirer. It would be like kicking a confiding puppy.”
― Georgette Heyer, Frederica

“Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation?”
― Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different

“Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“The cycle of optimism and euphoria leading to greed, fear and capitulation, giving way to hope and building back to optimism, drives the expansion and contraction of our financial world in a market cycle of collective human emotion.”
― Coreen T. Sol, Practically Investing: Smart Investment Techniques Your Neighbour Doesn't Know

“Or perhaps the syndrome we are witnessing is preemptive capitulation: If we reduce our conscience to rubble before the bad men get here, they will have nothing to destroy.”
― J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know: A Guide