Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.
Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.
Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.
The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.
Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.
I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.
When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit.
Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.
If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will blossom, everything will yield.
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.
I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.
One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language
Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection.
The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.
Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.
In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.
That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.
A collaboration, you have to collaborate, meet in the middle, yield to the other collaborator, and that's a wonderful thing.
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.
We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.
The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.
To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.
When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me its a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.
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.
Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.
Under-mature beef with no fat through the meat will be a dry and tasteless disappointment and you will get little yield from it.
The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
I'm praying for healing for our nation. For retaliation that yields constructive results. Peaceful protests. We need each other.
Longer distances yield local media coverage that tends to be more one-dimensional and absolute, less nuanced, and more sporadic.
I think that the more we, as a state, yield and cede decisions to the federal government, the lesser we'll be for it as a state.
That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this?
I feel like a lot of funders of documentaries today want to fund films that have a social message that is going to yield results.
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.