I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions. — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Longer distances yield local media coverage that tends to be more one-dimensional and absolute, less nuanced, and more sporadic. — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
It is clear that no one will achieve any kind of objective through the force of violence, and that no one will… — Jose Maria Aznar Copy Share Image
Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
As I descend the stairs, I can’t help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. So cold and beautiful. Even… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Your own self-will and anxiety, your hurry and labor, disturb your peace and prevent Me from working in you. Look at the… — Gerhard Tersteegen Copy Share Image
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Its very important to me to be respected by true talented artists and great minds than by the masses who need to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the… — Polybius 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
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
Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
How do you measure whether or not a strategy of economic growth that is articulated by a very smart, capable economist actually… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which… — William Ames Copy Share Image
In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
