Quotes of: Yield Keyword

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

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.

James L. Buckley

Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Ambrose Bierce

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.

Yvette Clarke

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

Katharine Whitehorn

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules, Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

Candide and The Maid of Orleans

Git'er Done They beat their swords upon their shields To no beast or man would they yield

Enigmatic Evolution

A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia.

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us.

The Solution

Both the teardrop and the tempest are made of water, making it the most yielding and most destructive force on Earth.

Venom

Radical honesty with oneself is an exquisite risk; that yields the reward of claiming ownership of the power to amaze yourself.

LaShaun Middlebrooks Collier

Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher than nearly any other development intervention.

Seth Berkley

The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great importance in the regions to which they are adapted.

David F. Houston

Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can't read it three times and say, 'OK, I got it. I know what's happening.'

Mike Nichols

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

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Immanuel Kant

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

Dag Hammarskjold

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Christopher Marlowe

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

Gao Xingjian

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

John Buchanan Robinson