Yield Quotes

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Children that have been petted and waited upon, always expect it; and if their expectations are not met, they are disappointed and discouraged. This same… — Ellen G. White
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. — Oscar Wilde
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and… — Oscar Wilde
Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station… — Abdul Kalam
Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded to a man before, and that without would or mark upon my… — Howard Pyle
But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without… — William Shakespeare
World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age. — William Shakespeare
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and… — Winston Churchill
That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he… — Martin Luther
Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of… — Charles Dickens
A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that… — Michel Foucault
It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will… — Gene Roddenberry
The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their… — Mary Doria Russell
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. — Henry David Thoreau
The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags… — Orson F. Whitney
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them? — P.G. Wodehouse
Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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