Quotes of: Yielded Keyword

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Stendhal

America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.

Eric Liu

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

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

Arlen Specter

That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would have been—no, she had yielded because a man wanted her. The subject was not one that could be freely discussed even among i...

Fifth Business

Le Chiffre: [after striking Bond with a knotted rope] You know, I never understood all these elaborate tortures. It's the simplest thing... to cause more pain than a man can possibly endure. [strikes Bond again, this time harder] Le Chiffre: And of c...

Casino Royale

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.

Robert Fortune

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Credit unions are often a better deal than banks and tend to pay higher yields on deposits.

Suze Orman

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Jack Kerouac

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

Billy Sunday

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Thomas Paine

It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.

Sidney Altman

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

Gary Becker

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Oscar Wilde

Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us.

P.T. Forsyth

A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Parents walk a fine line between discipline and grace - values have to hold even when circumstances change or call for compromise or compassion. It's the ultimate challenge to be both firm and fluid, soft and strong, yielding yet rock solid.

Kristin Armstrong

All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.

Earl Warren

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

Francis Drake