Yielded Quotes
86 quotes by 81 authors
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The pine fought the storm and broke. The willow yielded to the wind and snow and did not break. Practice Jiu-Jitsu in just this way.
— Kano Jigoro
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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they…
— Walter Lippmann
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Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
— Arlen Specter
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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
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Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us…
— C.S. Lewis
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That is a list of the Territories that yielded to Ebon Askavi. They now stand within the shadow of the Keep. They are mine. Anyone…
— Anne Bishop
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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Perhaps,†murmured his lordship, “I yielded to a compassionate impulse.†“A what?†gasped his best friend. “Oh, did you think I never did so?†said…
— Georgette Heyer
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If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was…
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.
— George R. R. Martin
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Being filled with the Spirit is simply this - having my whole nature yielded to His power. When the whole soul is yielded to the…
— Andrew Murray
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The inner throne of man is both what the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of Lucifer are after. And when this throne is yielded…
— Eric Ludy
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No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.
— Dwight L. Moody
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She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before…
— Amos Oz
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Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in…
— Mark Twain
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Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men…
— Henry Villard
Who Wrote These Yielded Quotes
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