Yield Quotes

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

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

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 important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.

Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.