Yielding Quotes

127 quotes by 97 authors

To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on.… — Eckhart Tolle
I donâ€™t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger… — Wole Soyinka
Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand. — Robert Breault
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the… — John the Apostle
A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of… — Thomas Browne
Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The battlefield as a… — William Howard Taft
A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow… — Sathya Sai Baba
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate. — Saint Francis de Sales
The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox… — Peter Medawar
There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it. — Honore de Balzac
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore… — John Quincy Adams
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. — Quentin Crisp
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep. — Queen Elizabeth II
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. — George Henry Lewes
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. — Billy Sunday
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God. — George Whitefield
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, â€” What is truth?… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little… — Jane Austen
We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the fervor I possessed. A lifetime… — Stephen R. Lawhead
I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious… — Vladimir Nabokov

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