If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia, are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Energy is like money; once spent, it's gone. However, it is possible to make an investment, as opposed to an expenditure, that… — Brendan Brazier Copy Share Image
We are to yield to the authority God has in place, and look to Him to find out what He would have… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat.,… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
In order to better charge Moscow with human rights violations, the United States had to bend with regard to the more excessive… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Positive thinking is just one small part of positive psychology. Plus, as an approach to well-being, positive thinking only helps you to… — Barbara Fredrickson Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to suppose that capacities must evolve gradually. There are many known examples of sharp changes - slight genetic modification… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Never give in.. never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want.… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century... During… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
From the prophets' dreams of the time when nations would beat their swords into plowshares to today's aspirations of a nuclear-weapons-free world,… — David Saperstein Copy Share Image
When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We might do well to stay home a few days and walk over the fields, or to stand in the shelter of… — Wheeler McMillen Copy Share Image
Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution,the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have because God has said, Never will… — Sharlene05 Copy Share Image
I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily… — Feist Copy Share Image
Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older… — Sharlene05 Copy Share Image
I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection. — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower… — Silas Weir Mitchell Copy Share Image
Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get… — Laozi Copy Share Image