Yield Quotes
688 quotes by 513 authors
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we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is…
— Julia Cameron
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And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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To be angry is to yield to the influence of Satan. No one can make us angry. It is our choice. If we desire to…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries…
— Paul Brunton
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To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that rise…
— Edward Thomas
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No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but…
— Anne Rice
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the…
— Oscar Wilde
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Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.
— Spencer W. Kimball
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I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who…
— Honore de Balzac
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Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its…
— Paul Brunton
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I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing…
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow…
— Wendell Berry
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I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on…
— James Boswell
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As I descend the stairs, I can’t help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. So cold and beautiful. Even in the Capitol,…
— Suzanne Collins
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Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for…
— Joseph Campbell
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Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?" -Royce Westmoreland
— Judith McNaught
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And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me…
— Alexandre Dumas
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In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for…
— J M Coetzee
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No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.
— Arthur W. Pink
Who Wrote These Yield Quotes
513 authors contributed a total of 688 Yield Quotes, led by these top contributors: