Yielding Quotes

127 quotes by 97 authors

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will… — Antonin Sertillanges
If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse. — Beryl Markham
Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding. — Rick Riordan
It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone… — Gregory Maguire
[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop… — Joseph Campbell
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind,… — Jane Austen
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this… — William Shakespeare
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward. — Joseph Campbell
Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding. — Catherynne M. Valente
The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in… — Robertson Davies
The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment. — Sheri S. Tepper
The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself:… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I thought I would love you foreverâ€”and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent, or reach for… — Jane Hirshfield
optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.… — Ambrose Bierce
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path… — Jane Smiley
All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected. — Dale Carnegie
Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - and most fools do - but it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's… — Lawrence G. Lovasik
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because… — Laozi
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft,… — Laozi

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