Elise Broach Quotes

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

Donneven, Bettaquit and Mmmhmmmm

Well if you can’t get what you love, You learn to love the things you’ve got .. If you can’t be what you want, You learn to be the things you’re not .. If you can’t get what you need, You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming

What you cannot control, you must accept.

Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

There it is. Take it.

I guess you deal with what you get.

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

Well, darling, you can have your tearoom now.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

Accept loss forever.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

If you cannot have the thing you want, you want the thing you have.

We don't make the rules. We just play by them.

There is nothing left for me to do but to go and see General Grant and I would rather die a thousand deaths.