Yields Quotes

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

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.

It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.

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

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.

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.

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

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

The minority yields to the majority!

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

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

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.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

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.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

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

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Everything yields to diligence.

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.

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

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.

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