Yields Quotes

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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and… — Johann Arndt
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce
There's always gonna be guys who are just wonderful singers and probably shouldn't be writing songs. Then there's always gonna be guys who move up… — Luke Bryan
One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to the ground. Another… — David O. McKay
The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. — Winston Churchill
I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the… — Lafcadio Hearn
Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort. — Leonardo da Vinci
All is change; all yields its place and goes. — Euripides
I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who… — H. L. Mencken
He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the… — Elie Wiesel
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes… — Rumi
The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is… — Mahatma Gandhi
There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is… — George Fownes
The determination of the relationship and mutual dependence of the facts in particular cases must be the first goal of the Physicist; and for this… — Franz Karl Achard
Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot… — J. Reuben Clark
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a… — H. L. Mencken
We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should… — Meg Whitman
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else.… — Lynn Steen

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