We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.
Your life does matter. It always matters whether you reach out in friendship or lash out in anger. It always matters whether you live with compassion and awareness or whether you succumb to distractions and trivia. It always matters how you treat other people, how you treat animals, and how you treat yourself. It always matters what you do. It always matters what you say. And it always matters what you eat.
Now, the Chinese people are outraged and they are sending clear signals to Beijing: "do not succumb to the West. " "If you do, our nation will suffer immensely, and the rest of the world will turn to ashes. "
Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.
Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.
During the election, I traveled all across the country. I like my country and the French. I love talking with them and convincing them. It is my job each day to fight for my compatriots. But also to not succumb to demagoguery and lies or agree to favors.
Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others'.
For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.
Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois
DECIDE, v. i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.
Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.
You're the light I can never have and I'm the darkness you'll never succumb to.
I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.
Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.
What, I'm supposed to succumb to your ideal image of what this is? No. I'm gonna stand above that and I'm gonna be who I am and be a rolemodel for these girls.
I think that every moment you succumb to cynicism, you're taking energy away from change.
All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!
