Yield Quotes:

Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.

- Abraham Cowley

topic: Yield, Yesterday, Doe

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?

- Abraham Cowley

topic: Bible, Yield, Land, Ulysses, Aeneas

How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?

- Abraham Kuyper

topic: Eye, Yield, Age

For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Country, Men, Yield

The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

- Abraham Maslow

topic: Philosophy, Yield, Psychology, Cripples

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

- Adam Savage

source: Ernst Hans Gombrich, Didier Eribon (1993). “Looking for answers: conversations on art and science”, Harry N Abrams Inc

topic: Yield, Data, Tests

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Persistence, Yield, Mind, Media Propaganda, Propagandist

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

- Adrian Rogers

topic: Attitude, Exercise, Yield, Praiseworthy, Dissipation

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Yield, Years, Stronger

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Yield, Giving

I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result

- Aitzaz Ahsan

topic: Thinking, Yield, Ongoing, Positive Results

Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.

- Albert Camus

topic: Morning, Yield, Waiting

However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when [general relativity], too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Believe, Yield, Forever, General Relativity

Too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run,

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Running, Yield, Long

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Technology, Yield, Hats, Medusa, Applied Science

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: Yield, Essentials, Would Be, Essential Questions, Anthropocentrism

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: Spiritual, Yield, Long

There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common object that does not yield an equal and coincident benefit. For it is an observation as true, as it is trite, that there is nothing men differ so readily about as the payment of money.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Men, Yield, Doe

To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.

- Alexander Pushkin

topic: Spring, Blessing, Yield

In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.

- Alfred Brendel

source: Alfred Brendel (2015). “Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures”, p.167, Biteback Publishing

topic: Moving, Yield, Despair, Schubert

Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.

- Alfred de Musset

topic: Wine, Thinking, Yield

No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory.

- Algernon Blackwood

source: Algernon Blackwood (2015). “Algernon Blackwood: Premium 11 Novels Collection (Jimbo, The Education of Uncle Paul, The Human Chord, The Centaur, The Promise of Air, The Garden of Survival, The Bright Messenger and more)”, p.718, e-artnow

topic: Wall, Memories, Yield

Under questioning, a terrorist should be made to yield.

- Ami Ayalon

topic: Yield, Made, Should

This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.

- Anais Nin

topic: Yield, Air, Sun, Handsomeness

An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ; it was that Leviathan, the Nation.

- Andre Malraux

topic: Men, Yield, Leviathan, Grandiose, Hedonism

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.

- Andrew Mellon

source: Andrew W. Mellon (2016). “Taxation: The People’s Business”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

topic: Yield, Government, People, Tax Burden

In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom...of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

- Andy Andrews

topic: Heart, Thinking, Yield, Desperate Times, Head And Heart

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

- Ann Radcliffe

topic: Fear, Yield, Mind

If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.

- Anne Hutchinson

topic: Yield, Looks, Look Up

…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief.

- Anne Rice

topic: Atheist, Thinking, Yield

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

- Anthony Hope

source: 'The Dolly Dialogues' (1894) no. 14

topic: Yield, Temptation, Absurd

A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always more honorable. But it may be advantageous to take the offensive, instead of awaiting the attack on the frontiers.

- Antoine-Henri Jomini

source: Antoine-Henri Jomini (2012). “The Art of War”, p.15, Courier Corporation

topic: War, Yield, May

I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.

- Ariana Franklin

source: Ariana Franklin (2008). “The Serpent's Tale”, p.406, Penguin

topic: Yield, Bed, Admiration

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

- Arnold Bennett

source: Arnold Bennett, Edward Knoblock, Alan Alexander Milne, Novel Coward, Robert Cedric Sherriff (1951). “Modern Plays ...”

topic: Past, Yield, People

No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.

- Arthur W. Pink

topic: Lazy People, Yield, Scripture

The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.

- Arthur W. Pink

source: Matthew Henry, J. Gill, Arthur W. Pink (2001). “Exposition of I and II Samuel”, p.197, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

topic: Book, Men, Yield, Bowels, Lazy Man

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Yield, Shady, Sunny, Sunny Afternoon, Sunny Weather

Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Flower, Yoga, Yield, Inspirational Yoga, Mind Body

I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous, they reveal themselves slowly, stone by stone, garden by garden; hidden treasures wait calmly to be loved and yield to introspective wandering.

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

topic: Travel, Garden, Yield, Courteous, Hidden Treasure

Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.

- Barbara Hepworth

topic: Yield, Produce, Tempted, Hybridity

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.

- Barbara Hepworth

topic: Yield, Details, Tiny

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

- Barney Frank

topic: Yield, Long, Doe

Hell itself must yield to industry.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Yield, Hell

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Perseverance, Yield, Wealth, Perserverance, Frugality

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Cutting, Loss, Yield, Speculators, His Loss

Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Loss, Men, Yield

Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead. She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation, but yields her own desires gently.

- Beryl Markham

topic: Character, Yield, Hands, Derelict

Those who possess that treasure which no thief can take away, Which, though on suppliants freely spent, increaseth day by day, The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth-- To them e'en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.

- Bhartrhari

topic: Happiness, Kings, Yield

Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market,

- Bill Gross

topic: Yield, Bears, Ridiculous

The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.

- Bill McKibben

topic: Yield, Law, Divergent

Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living. It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers

- Bill Mollison

topic: Technology, Creating, Yield, Food Production, Permaculture

the value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income.

- Bill Mollison

topic: Yield, Land, Water, Pure Water

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

- Bob Barr

topic: Technology, Yield, Medicine, Information Technology, Looking Down

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

- Brad Henry

topic: Yield, Community, Foundation, Investment In Education

It yields solid satisfaction to hear men testify of the truth of the Gospel. It is always peculiarly interesting to me to hear the Saints tell their experience. It is to me one of the best sermons to hear men and women relate to each other how the Lord has wrought upon their understanding, and brought them into the path of truth, life, and salvation.

- Brigham Young

topic: Men, Yield, Interesting, Truth Of Life

That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.

- Brother Lawrence

topic: Yield, Joy, Soul

Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.

- Bruce Mau

topic: Unique, Simple, Yield, Unique Things

In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.

- Burt Rutan

topic: Technology, Space, Yield, Space Exploration

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Morning, Yield, Sunrise

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

- Carlos Slim

topic: Yield, Optimism, Rewards

If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results.

- Charlene Li

topic: Letting Go, Thinking, Yield, Fooling Yourself

When you come back to God for pardon and salvation, come with all you have to lay all at his feet. Come with your body, to offer it as a living sacrifice upon His altar. Come with your soul and all its powers, and yield them in willing consecration to your God and Saviour. Come, bring them all along-everything, body, soul, intellect, imagination, acquirements-all, without reserve.

- Charles Grandison Finney

topic: Sacrifice, Yield, Feet, Consecration, Altars

Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Graduation, Sweet, Yield, Yes You Can, Winsome

God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength?

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Yield, Hands, Weakness

This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Blessing, Clouds, Yield, John The Baptist, Deluge

None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look out for the best society, that which yields a bracing and wholesome influence. We all know the person for whose company we are the better, though the talk is only about fishing or embroidery.

- Charlotte Mason

topic: Book, Men, Yield, Embroidery

The joy of late love is like green firewood when set aflame, for the longer the wait in lighting, the greater heat it yields and the longer its force lasts....

- Chretien de Troyes

topic: Love You, Love Is, Yield, Firewood

In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Strong, Party, Yield, Concessions

Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Yield, Mistress, Favors

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Yield, Half, Defeat

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

source: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" l. 1 (ca. 1589)

topic: Love, Life, Yield, Mountain Ranges, Mountains And Valleys

I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.

- Clara Schumann

topic: Yield, Demand, Conviction

As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, because the cause of the phenomena is accurately defined. Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined,Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined, can we compile statistics. ... we must learn therefore that we compile statistics only when we cannot possibly help it; for in my opinion, statistics can never yield scientific truth.

- Claude Bernard

topic: Knowledge, Science, Yield, Undefined

Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

- Clayton Christensen

topic: Yield, People, Rewards

Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results.

- Creflo A. Dollar

topic: Jesus, Yield, Christ

A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Children, Men, Yield

Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Yield, Inner Peace, Doe

You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

- Dan Buettner

topic: Beautiful, Garden, Yield

When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of a particular room -- on successive occasions, we quickly begin to adapt to it, and the experience yields less pleasure each time. Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage

- Daniel Gilbert

topic: Yield, Making Love, Hearing, Sonatas, Sun Set

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.

- Daniel Goleman

topic: Yield, Data, Mind, Cognitive, Neuroscience

The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.

- Daniel H. Pink

topic: Leadership, Keys, Yield, Science Research, Important Lessons

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

- David Brainerd

source: David Brainerd (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: From the Honourable Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge; who Died at Northampton in New England, Oct. 9, 1747 ...”, p.242

topic: Yield, Acting, Finishing

Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

- David Crystal

topic: Reading, Yield, Giving

I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.

- David Dreman

source: "Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Classic Edition". Book by David Dreman, May 18, 1998.

topic: Book, Yield, Average, Long Periods Of Time

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

- David F. Houston

topic: Yield, Weight, Acres, Barley

The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.

- David F. Houston

topic: Yield, Land, Corn, Unproductive

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

topic: Yield, Light, Fields, Adapted

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

- David Guterson

topic: Yield, World

To what profit is it that we dwell in Jerusalem, if we do not see the King's face? And when He comes forth from His royal chambers, accompanied with blessing, are we to hold ourselves at leisure that we may yield Him worship and offer Him service?

- David McIntyre

topic: Kings, Blessing, Yield

You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got.

- David Miliband

source: "David Miliband: politics for the pinched generation". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2012.

topic: Hate, Live Life, Yield, Spilt Milk

Transitions are a part of life, allowing for perpetual renewal. When you experience the end of one chapter, allow yourself to feel the emotions of loss and rebirth. A bud gives way to a new flower, which surrenders to the fruit, which gives rise to a seed, which yields a new sprout. Even as you ride the roller coaster, embrace the centered internal reference of the ever-present witness.

- David Simon

topic: Flower, Loss, Yield

The minority yields to the majority!

- Deng Xiaoping

topic: Yield, Majority, Minorities, Majority And Minority

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Yield, Moments, Lifetime

...And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield...

- Don McLean

topic: Music, Player, Yield, Marching Band

Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life.

- Donald Phillip Verene

source: "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

topic: Philosophy, Yield, Age, Hegel, Objectifying

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

- Earl Warren

topic: Yield, Law, Principles

To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before!

- Edith M. Thomas

topic: Yield, Doubt

Is there a rarer being, Is there a fairer sphere Where the strong are not unseeing, And the harvests are not sere; Where, ere the seasons dwindle They yield their due return; Where the lamps of knowledge kindle While the flames of youth still burn?

- Edmund Clarence Stedman

source: Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900). “An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century”, Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, [190-]

topic: Strong, Future, Yield

Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.

- Edmund Spenser

topic: Yield, Brave, Spurs

I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which yield fruit but once, and then die.

- Edward John Trelawny

source: Edward John Trelawny (1835). “Adventures of a Younger Son”, p.506

topic: Yield, Tree, Love And Friendship

I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.

- Edward Kennedy

topic: Gun, Yield, Politics

Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us!

- Eiji Yoshikawa

topic: Yield, Looks, Sun

there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth.

- Eleanor Dark

topic: Yield, Creative, Mind, Mind Body, Mind Body And Spirit

Facts, I feel, should be ready to yield to manipulation. But unfortunately they're a stubborn lot.

- Elizabeth Ferrars

topic: Yield, Stubborn, Manipulation

Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.

- Elsa Barker

source: Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

topic: Yield, Meditation, Soul

I cannot help esteem The 'Bird within the Hand' Superior to the one The 'Bush' may yield me Or may not Too late to choose again

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Yield, Hands, Bird

Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?

- Empress Dowager Cixi

source: "The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China". Book by Keith Laidler, p. 221, January 21, 2005.

topic: Fighting, Yield, Faces

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

- Eric Liu

topic: America, Yield, Usa

Those who want success should think like a planter. They should understand that having the right seed is an essential key to success, but they must also understand that the soil that they entrust to the seed is just as vital Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?.

- Eric Thomas

topic: Thinking, Keys, Yield, Planters

Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?

- Eric Thomas

topic: Yield, Kind, Environment

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

- Erica Jong

topic: Believe, Artist, Yield

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

- Euripides

topic: Blow, Men, Yield, Perseverence

When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.

- Euripides

topic: Yield, Flames, Giving

All is change; all yields its place and goes.

- Euripides

topic: Change, Yield

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

- F. H. Bradley

source: "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 75, 1930.

topic: Struggle, Blow, Yield, Resisting Temptation, Resisting

A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not on another occasion indulge its own will.

- Felix Frankfurter

topic: Yield, Practice, Justice

Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield.

- Frances Power Cobbe

source: Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.107, Cambridge University Press

topic: Struggle, Yield, Ideas

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

source: Dispatch to Sir Francis Walsingham, 17 May 1587, in 'Navy Records Society' vol. 11 (1898) p.134

topic: Yield, Addiction, Matter, Uncharted

This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war thrust upon us and we cannot yield to tyranny.

- Francis Spellman

topic: War, Believe, Yield

When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when religion contradicts science on matters of fact, religion must yield.

- Frank Wilczek

topic: Believe, Yield, Matter

Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions.

- Fritz Sauckel

source: "The Trial of the Germans" by Eugene Davidson, (p. 513), 1997.

topic: Hate, Yield, Might, Output

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

- Gao Xingjian

topic: Yield, Literature, Starting, Starting Point, Observing

The act of the soul, in surrendering itself into the hands of Christ, forms a connecting bond between Him as the Vine and the soul as the branches, which communicates life, strength, nourishment, and beauty. In a word, with a just view of the character, and a supreme attachment to the person of Christ, the believer yields himself into His hands as a full and complete Saviour. Him he receives; upon Him he rests, and rests for time and eternity.

- Gardiner Spring

source: Gardiner Spring (1813). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.122

topic: Character, Yield, Attachment, Life Strength, Saviour

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

- Gary Becker

topic: Yield, Interesting, Systematic

At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

- Gary Hamel

topic: Heart, Yield, Comfort

It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.

- Gene Roddenberry

topic: Struggle, Yield, Goal, Ultimate Goal

Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind-- More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind.

- George Crabbe

topic: Yield, Mind, Kind

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment.

- George Gissing

topic: Christmas, Heart, Yield, Vendors, Mistletoe

The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.

- George Lillo

topic: Heart, Yield, Purpose

When not protected by law, by popular favor or superstition, or by other special circumstances, [birds] yield very readily to the influences of civilization, and, though the first operations of the settler are favorable to the increase of many species, the great extension of rural and of mechanical industry is, in a variety of ways, destructive even to tribes not directly warred upon by man.

- George Perkins Marsh

source: George Perkins Marsh (2001). “So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh”, University Press of New England

topic: Men, Yield, Law, Settlers

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

- George Stigler

topic: Yield, Chicago, Economic, Dispersion, Economic Theory

I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'.

- George Washington

topic: America, Yield, Anarchy, Deserted

It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit.

- George Washington

topic: Yield, Law, Honor

Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.

- Gerald May

source: Gerald G. May (2009). “Will and Spirit”, p.8, Harper Collins

topic: Yield, Giving, Mastery, Willfulness

All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

topic: Fire, Yield, Giving

Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the paint; it has presence; but it always yields a picture - no matter whether good or bad. That's all the theory. It's no good. I once took some small photographs and then smeared them with paint. That partly resolved the problem, and it's really good - better than anything I could ever say on the subject.

- Gerhard Richter

topic: Photography, Reality, Yield

The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their heads. The few friends the forest had were spoken of, when they were spoken of at all, as impractical theorists, fanatics, or "denudatics," more or less touched in the head. What talk there was about forest protection was no more to the average American that the buzzing of a mosquito, and just about as irritating.

- Gifford Pinchot

topic: Yield, Average, Ideas

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even though it were condemned by all other artists as anti-musical.

- Giuseppe Verdi

topic: Inspiration, Artist, Yield

But Russians, in their very nature, it seems, pass quickly from the highest enthusiam to complete dejection and distrust. They yield to their moods quite sincerely and go the whole way, entirely forgetting all moods preceding and opposite. They do not see any contradiction in such behaviour; or, if they do, they readily find excuses for it.

- Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

topic: Yield, Russia, Opposites

To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.

- Grenville Kleiser

source: Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

topic: Yield, Mind, Plant

And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice....

- Gunter Grass

topic: Nice, Play, Yield

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

- H. P. Blavatsky

topic: Character, Yield, Evil, Defects Of Character

I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour. I am endeavouring that others, in their turn, will be obliged to yield to my good fortune, and my valour.

- Hannibal

topic: War, Yield, Honor, Contending

The actor's physical type isn't and shouldn't be the main consideration. Does the actor look the part? It is the simplest question to deal with. The director deludes himself who yields to the temptation to believe that an affirmative answer settles the matter. An actor's looks will impress an audience initially, but after his first five minutes on stage it becomes aware of what he or she communicates (or fails to communicate) through acting!

- Harold Clurman

topic: Believe, Yield, Temptation

I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.

- Harold Hamm

source: "Birth Of A Wildcatter - How Harold Hamm Got His Start". www.forbes.com. December 6, 2012.

topic: Believe, Yield, Years

God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to reassure us that we do not have to be afraid of the darkness because darkness will always yield to light. As theologian David Griffin puts in, God is all-powerful, His power enables people to deal with events beyond their control and He gives us the strength to do those things because He is with us.

- Harold S. Kushner

source: Harold S. Kushner (2006). “Overcoming Life's Disappointments”, p.15, Anchor

topic: Powerful, Yield, Light

The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them.

- Harriet Martineau

topic: Ignorance, Yield, Government

I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines... the comfort and the measurements of its environment... the human measure is still the strongest factor. But coming back to the chair, there are certain motions we go through - we like to lean back, like to toss things - and if the chair's adaptable it responds and it's almost like wearing a comfortable coat; you really don't know you have it on.

- Harry Bertoia

topic: Moving, Yield, Appreciate, Adaptable

When you're in love with God, you're not afraid to yield your life to Him.

- Heidi Baker

topic: Compassion, Yield, God Love

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Nature, Believe, Yield, Inspiring Nature, Mother Nature

If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Real, Work, Yield

There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.

- Henry Ford

topic: Yield, Vegetables, Years

Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.

- Henry Miller

topic: Yield, Joy, Produce, Tropic Of Cancer

Kyoto is likely to yield far less than the targeted emissions reduction. That failure will most likely be papered over with creative accounting, shifting definitions of carbon sinks, and so on. If this happens, the credibility of the international process for addressing climate change will be at risk.

- Henry Sylvester Jacoby

topic: Yield, Kyoto, Creative, Kyoto Protocol

Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.

- Henry Vaughan

source: Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis LYTE (1847). “Silex scintillans, 1650. A ... facsimile”, p.31

topic: Mother, Son, Yield

The work of art ... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

- Herbert Read

topic: Art, Yield, May

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Yield, Envy, Vices

Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Men, Yield, Order

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Love, Yield, Natural

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Men, Yield, Sound

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

- Horace

topic: Yield, Sloth, Laziness, Alluring

An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded to a man before, and that without would or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.

- Howard Pyle

topic: Men, Yield, Ale

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

- Howard Thurman

topic: Mean, Commitment, Yield, Inspirational Commitment

To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic.

- Hugo Rahner

topic: Yield, Play, Magic

At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

- Ibn Khaldun

topic: Freedom, Yield, Assessment

It is legitimate to have one's own point of view and political philosophy. But there are people who make anger, rather than a deeply held belief, the basis of their actions. They do not seem to mind harming society as a whole in the pursuit of their immediate objective. No society can survive if it yields to the demands of frenzy, whether of the few or the many.

- Indira Gandhi

topic: Philosophy, Party, Yield, Political Philosophy

There do remain dispersed in the soil of human nature divers seeds of goodness, of benignity, of ingenuity, which, being cherished, excited, and quickened by good culture, do, by common experience, thrust out flowers very lovely, and yield fruits very pleasant of virtue and goodness.

- Isaac Barrow

source: Isaac Barrow (1839). “The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author”, p.145

topic: Flower, Yield, Lovely, Common Experience

Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we are about to receive make us truly thankful.' ... he... felt his heart suddenly flow over with thankfulness... like a gush of warm water... All that remains is to live here quietly for the rest of my life, eating food that my own labour has made the earth to yield. All that remains is to be a tender of the soil.

- J. M. Coetzee

topic: Heart, Garden, Yield, All That Remains

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton)

- J. M. Coetzee

topic: Voice, Yield, Giving, Chinks

If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and how to be flexible and to collaborate and compromise, and that may yield a creative outcome.

- J. Richard Hackman

source: "Executive Life; Learning Teamwork By Making Music" by Amy Zipkin, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 2003.

topic: Thinking, Yield, Feet

"Yield" was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

- Jack Irons

topic: Spring, Yield, Decision

Those that yield are not always weak

- Jacqueline Carey

topic: Yield, Weak

That which yields is not always weak.

- Jacqueline Carey

source: Jacqueline Carey (2007). “Kushiel's Avatar”, p.467, Macmillan

topic: Yield, Weak, Flexibility, Kushiel's Dart

The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true.

- Jamaica Kincaid

topic: Truth, Mean, Yield

I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.

- James Boswell

source: James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”

topic: Writing, Yield, Joy, Dissertation

Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits.

- Jan Peacock

topic: Sorry, Yield, Discovery

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

- Jane Bryant Quinn

topic: Real, Yield, Class

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.

- Jane Porter

topic: Love, Yield, Compulsion

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language

- Jean Rostand

topic: Men, Yield, Understanding

The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.

- Jean-Baptiste Say

topic: Yield, Entrepreneur, Economic, Economic Resources, Creative Destruction

The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself.

- Jean-Baptiste Say

topic: Yield, Giving, Occupation

If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Men, Yield, Soul, Woe Unto

A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.

- Jeff Cox

topic: Garden, Yield, Growth

F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed.

- Jeff Greenfield

topic: Yield, Order, Southern, New Deal

The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

- Jenny Holzer

topic: Yield, Lovely, Attention, Lovely Things

Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.

- Jeremy Bentham

topic: Fall, Yield, Mind, Softness, Kindliness

When you yield yourself in complete and whole-hearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you.

- Jim George

topic: Yield, Obedience, Great Things, Obedience To God

The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.

- Joan D. Chittister

topic: Yield, Perspective, Achievement, Secret Life, Aspects Of Life

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 thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

- Johann Arndt

source: Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.51

topic: Men, Yield, Giving, Worldly Pleasures, Careless

I, a pilgrim of eternity, stand before Thee, O eternal One. Let me not seek to deaden or destroy the desire for Thee that disturbs my heart. Let me rather yield myself to its constraint and go where it leads me. Make me wise to see all things today under the form of eternity, and make me brave to face all the changes in my life which such a vision may entail: through the grace of Christ my Saviour. Amen

- John Baillie

source: John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner

topic: Wise, Heart, Yield, Pilgrim, Saviour

Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact...

- John Burroughs

topic: Yield, Facts, Significant

If we do not defend ourselves none will defend us; if we yield we will be more and more pressed as we recede; and if we submit we will be trampled under foot. I hold concession or compromise to be fatal. If we concede an inch, concession would follow compromise, until our ranks would be so broken that effectual resistance would be impossible.

- John C. Calhoun

topic: Yield, Feet, Broken, Concessions

For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond Him - they will never yield Him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in Him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to Him.

- John Calvin

topic: Men, Yield, Giving, Complete Happiness

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

- John Denver

topic: Yield, World, Vegetarian, Vegan Food, Vegetarian Food

Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Years, Yield, Government

We acknowledge no righteousness but what the obedience and satisfaction of Christ yields us. His blood, not our faith; his satisfaction, not our believing it, is the matter of our justification before God.

- John Flavel

topic: Believe, Yield, Blood

When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.

- John Godfrey Saxe

source: John Godfrey Saxe (1872). “The Poems: Complete in One Volume”, p.4

topic: Flower, Writing, Yield, Ferns

And we support Senator Joseph Lieberman, that it's time for our country to consider a military preemptive strike against Iran if they will not yield to diplomacy

- John Hagee

topic: Country, Military, Yield, Senators, Our Country

Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.

- John Henry Holland

source: John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

topic: Yield, Innovation, Elements

The barrier has begun to yield.

- John Herschel

source: John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.550, Cambridge University Press

topic: Yield, Astronomy, Cosmology