Yield Quotes - Page 10

• The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their minds. So questions like Anne's are worth asking. To ask them is a very fine kind of human behavior. If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Children, Clever, Feet

  "The Sparrow". Book by Mary Doria Russell, October, 1996.

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• Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well.

  Ernest Sosa

  Doe, Reliability, Competence

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reading, Inspired, Mystery

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Cities, Temptation, Use

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “My Man Jeeves”, p.29, Booklassic

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• Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Pride, Sarcasm

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• …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

  Atheist, Thinking, Ideas

  Anne Rice (2013). “Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession”, p.129, Random House

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• Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites.

  Michael Pollan

  Turkeys, America, Half

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• To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.

  Jane Austen

  Understanding, Merit, Compliment

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.

  Rumi

  Love, Spiritual, Pain

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.111, Lulu.com

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• The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Past, Men, Practice

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• 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

  Wall, Memories, Sight

  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

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• There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest.

  Ralph Moody

  Honesty, Lying, Men

  Ralph Moody (1991). “Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers”, p.177, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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

  Blow, Men, Wind

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• 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

  Air, Sun, Snowflake

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• 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

  Fire, Giving, Sparks

  Peter Milward, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Raymond V. Schoder (1975). “Landscape and inscape: vision and inspiration in Hopkins's poetry”, Elektrohas

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• How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.

  George Eliot

  Spring, First Love, Boys

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.445, Delphi Classics

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• I lived in San Jose for a little bit, and one of my neighbors was Vietnamese and was teasing me. I said "I've had pho," and then he goes, "Oh, what do you get, the number one big bowl?" I was like, "Come on, man. You don't have to come at me like that." But yeah, I've tried tendon. Tendon eventually yields.

  Adam Richman

  Men, Numbers, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We can begin to let go of the complications that cause us to suffer by cultivating a simple state of awareness. In this process, tiny steps yield big results, in part because simplicity is nature's default position. Suffering and the complications that fuel it are unnatural; it wastes energy to maintain complexity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Simple, Simplicity

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• War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else. War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life.

  Steven Erikson

  War, Hands, Goal

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• 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

  Life, Heart, Thinking

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.154, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Delight, Sun

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Nice, Color, Play

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• The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.

  Holly Black

  Powerful, Hate, Mouths

  Holly Black (2008). “Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• That which yields is not always weak.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Weak, Kushiel's Dart, Flexibility

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

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• Any time we open ourselves up to fear, we fall prey to his deceptions and intimidations. Yet, if we submit our hearts to God and stand in faith, we can resist those first fearful thoughts. As we yield to God we can master our reactions to fear and the enemy will soon flee.

  Francis Frangipane

  Fall, Heart, Deception

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