Yielded Quotes
86 quotes by 81 authors
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My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.
— Cleopatra
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The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for…
— Pope Gregory I
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Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.
— William Wordsworth
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Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you…
— Joseph Campbell
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Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway…
— Felix Frankfurter
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In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Even as the church must fear Christ Jesus, so must the wives also fear their husbands. And this inward fear must be shewed by an…
— John Dod
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This investigation has yielded an unanticipated result that reaction of cyanic acid with ammonia gives urea, a noteworthy result in as much as it provides…
— Friedrich Wohler
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While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe, the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we…
— James Monroe
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It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life…
— Wendell Berry
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If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens, the U.S. model…
— Edward S. Herman
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It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been…
— Flora Rheta Schreiber
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Based on my experience, I've seen where unity amongst the races has yielded positive results. I don't see any other way for people to gain…
— Richard Aoki
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Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke…
— Miriam Schapiro
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Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.
— Robert L. Millet
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When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour.…
— Hannibal
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When I was a young man I heard Henry Barley say that the world has yet to see what God can do for a man…
— Dwight L. Moody
Who Wrote These Yielded Quotes
81 authors contributed a total of 86 Yielded Quotes, led by these top contributors: