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Tag Name "Yields" (164)

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The only power that God yields to is that of prayer.
Leonard Ravenhill
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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. The Mad Philosopher, 1697
Ambrose Bierce
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The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a horse-hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake.
H. L. Mencken
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.
Joseph Campbell
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Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
Gao Xingjian
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Stendhal
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We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.
Rumi
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The Universe yields to me when I ask.
Esther Hicks
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You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.
Ovid
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The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.
David F. Houston
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Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night you cannot shun it or slip away from it you cannot dismiss it it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.
J. Reuben Clark
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Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.
Leonardo da Vinci
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There's always gonna be guys who are just wonderful singers and probably shouldn't be writing songs. Then there's always gonna be guys who move up the ranks writing. I don't know what's healthier or what's the best thing - probably whatever yields the best songs.
Luke Bryan
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But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.
Henry David Thoreau
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A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always more honorable. But it may be advantageous to take the offensive, instead of awaiting the attack on the frontiers.
Antoine-Henri Jomini
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Automating a mess yields an automated mess.
Michael Martin Hammer
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That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.
Francis Bacon
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The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Winston Churchill
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All is change all yields its place and goes.
Euripides
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Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.
Henry David Thoreau
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The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
Jane Bryant Quinn
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All money for agricultural extension, land grant universities has been toward developing industrial food. Lots of money has been invested toward maximizing yield. If you took even a small amount of that money and put it toward organic research, I don't have any doubts you could match those yields.
Michael Pollan
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