Yet Quotes - page 3

For there is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope. (George Eliot)
Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it. View quote
Edward Snowden
I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner. View quote
John Donne
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers. View quote
Georg Büchner
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. View quote
Thornton Wilder
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.' View quote
Thornton Wilder
To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet. View quote
Merton Miller
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. View quote
Edmund Burke
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. (Margaret Mead)
There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. View quote
Norman Mailer
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. View quote
Washington Irving
The world is not yet exhaused let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. View quote
Samuel Johnson
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. View quote
E. M. Forster
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. View quote
Walter Raleigh
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. View quote
Paul Ricœur
I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. (Maya Angelou)
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. View quote
Joseph Addison
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. View quote
Joseph Addison
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool. View quote
John Dryden
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. View quote
Dean Acheson
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