Yield Quotes - page 2

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth. (Peter Straub)
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. View quote
George Stigler
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love have overcome. View quote
Maria Weston Chapman
I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it. View quote
Ted Kennedy
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. View quote
Virgil
Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels. View quote
Cicero
But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes. View quote
Robert Frost
Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so, they are gone to milk the bull. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy. View quote
Henry Miller
Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications. (Gary Becker)
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. View quote
Quintilian
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. View quote
Leslie Feist
Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them. View quote
Wafa Sultan
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems right meet of decency does yield. View quote
William Shenstone
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. View quote
George Chapman
Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone-all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it. View quote
Albert Camus
I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honour and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour. I am endeavouring that others, in their turn, will be obliged to yield to my good fortune, and my valour. View quote
Hannibal
To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. View quote
Steven Pressfield
To make everything yield to custom would be to do the greatest injustice. Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of custom. But human affairs have scarcely ever been so happily constituted as that the better course pleased the greater number. Hence the private vices of the multitude have generally resulted in public error. (John Calvin)
The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars; but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others. View quote
John Calvin
And it is certain that those who do not yield to their equals, who keep terms with their superiors, and are moderate towards their inferiors, on the whole succeed best. View quote
Thucydides
All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death. View quote
Henri Bergson
We yield to none in our love, admiration and respect for the Buddha-the Dharma-the Sangha. They are all ours. Their glories are ours and ours their failures. View quote
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar