Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

Ovid

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

Ovid

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

Ovid

Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.

Oswald Chambers

The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.

Laurence D. Fink

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me its a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Lafcadio Hearn

I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the Judo expert does not oppose such movements at all. No, he yields to them. But he does much more than yield to them. He aids them with a wicked sleight that causes the assailant to put out his own shoulder, to fracture his own arm, or in a desparate case, even to break his own neck or back.

Paul Brunton

Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.

Michael Pollan

Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

Oscar Wilde

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Mitt Romney

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.

Publilius Syrus

Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.

Jacques Barzun

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

J. R. R. Tolkien

And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.

Gary Becker

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

Gao Xingjian

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.

Horace

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

George Stigler

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

Feist

I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone

Jenny Holzer

The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

Honore de Balzac

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

Immanuel Kant

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Mary Leakey

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

John Smith

Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.

Martin Luther

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

Lech Walesa

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

Luigi Pirandello

Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.

John Burroughs

Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact...

Lucy Powell

Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.