Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic. — Stephen Mansfield Copy Share Image
Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much. — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
For life, with all its yields of joy and woe Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields. — Nuno Oliveira Copy Share Image
You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe. — Ovid Copy Share Image
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield… — Eleanor Dark 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
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
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
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
Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
By wit we search divine aspect above, By wit we learn what secrets science yields, By wit we speak, by wit the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Last night I had rinsed out my sari strip and briefs in the sea. I walked down naked to where they hung… — Lucy Irvine Copy Share Image
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation's character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Well, another senator rose and said {as they always do} 'Does the gentleman yield?' They always say that - least they call… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Homosexual feelings are controllable. Perhaps there is an inclination or susceptibility to such feelings that is a reality for some and not… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image