Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.
I think 'fan' implies somebody who's submissive, sycophantic, in awe of everything you're doing.
To truly be feminine means being soft, receptive, and - look out, here it comes - submissive.
There are two kinds of people in the world: Submissive and rebellious. The problem of the world is that majority is in the first category!
Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.
Looking away is submissive. Looking [. . ] in the eye is a challenge.
Victims may be defensive, submissive, over-accommodating to others, passive-aggressive in conflict, dependent on others for self-worth, overly sensitive, even manipulative. They're often angry, resentful, and envious, feeling unworthy or ashamed about their circumstances. Have you ever felt or acted this way?
The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.
Remember to be submissive, thou art analien, a fugitive, and in need.
The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person.
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.
One of the beautiful things about writing is that it offers an inner life that's disciplined and at the same time wild. Not in any way servile or submissive. It exists outside of institutional and other forms of authority even when being affected by them. On what almost feels like a cellular level, it's anathema to labeling and enforced divisions.
We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?
Turning the other cheek isn't submissive. It's defiant.
Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.
Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way
Sadly, man recognises that the ideal, submissive woman he has created for himself is somehow not quite what he wanted.
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.
Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.