Yield Quotes

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.

Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

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

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.

Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic.

Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason.

Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady.

Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes.

Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.

Under questioning, a terrorist should be made to yield.

Hell itself must yield to industry.

Energy is like money; once spent, it's gone. However, it is possible to make an investment, as opposed to an expenditure, that yields a return.

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

Why is it when you yield, I feel like the one who has been conquered?

It is fitting for a great nation to yield.

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me its a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure

If you look at the sponsorship yields, Formula One - because it happens every year - generates more sponsorship money for a four-year cycle than anybody else. So it is very powerful.

The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.

If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

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

Awareness yields to itself, to its inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience itself.

We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced a bear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Germany strove for maximum yields of both timber and game and got neither.

Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.

Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare.

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

Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning.