Yield Quotes - Page 15

• Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.

  Rick Riordan

  Hard Work, Love Is, Games

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• 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

  Real, Work, Idlers

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• You are exactly who the Greatest You (aka God) most wanted to be, not a frail offshoot who must bow, curtsey, and yield to this "higher power" but an unbeknownst Lord yourself.

  Mike Dooley

  God, Aka, Bows

  Mike Dooley (2009). “Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Irritation, Saving

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.376, Penguin

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• I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Common Sense, Wish

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Lily of the Valley”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Sweet, Men, Pressure

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

  Robert Kennedy

  Courage, Eulogy, Quality

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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

  Judith McNaught

  Feels, Has Beens

  "A Kingdom of Dreams". Book by Judith McNaught, March 1, 1989.

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• No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

  Anne Rice

  Memories, Long, Suffering

  "Blood and Gold (Vampire Chronicles, Book 8)". Book by Anne Rice, October 16, 2001.

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• To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that rise When the spade wounds the root of tree, Rose, currant, raspberry, or goutweed, Rhubarb or celery; The smoke's smell, too, Flowing from where a bonfire burns The dead, the waste, the dangerous, And all to sweetness turns. It is enough To smell, to crumble the dark earth, While the robin sings over again Sad songs of Autumn mirth." - A poem called DIGGING.

  Edward Thomas

  Song, Autumn, Dark

  Edward Thomas (2011). “Selected Poems of Edward Thomas”, p.85, Faber & Faber

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• And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Gratitude, Kindness, Farewell

  "The Count of Monte Cristo". Book by Alexandre Dumas, 1845-1846.

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• 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

  Voice, Giving, Relax

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “Foe: A Novel”, p.25, Penguin

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• Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Sarcastic, Decision

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.157

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• Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.

  Paul Brunton

  Ego, Twists, Firsts

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth”

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• As I descend the stairs, I can’t help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. So cold and beautiful. Even in the Capitol, there’s nothing to match the magnificence of this old building. But there is no give to the surface - only my flesh yields, my warmth taken. Stone conquers people every time.

  Suzanne Collins

  Beautiful, Wall, Taken

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.209, Scholastic Inc.

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• Being in a foreign place, preferably for the first time, having seen many things and collected new impressions, and returning to an empty hotel room with an hour or so to blow. That mix often yields fine results.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Blow, Rooms, Firsts

  Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth)

  Wendell Berry

  People, Generosity, Principles

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• The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

  Matthew Arnold

  Heart, Brave, Intelligence

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems”, p.42

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• This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise. Their aid they yield to all: they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone; Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd; Nor tell to various people various things, But show to subjects, what they show to kings.

  George Crabbe

  Wise, Kings, Selfish

  George Crabbe, C. T. (1829). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe, Etc. [With a Portrait and a Prefatory Memoir Signed: C. T.]”, p.29

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• Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Heart, Romance

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.19, New World Library

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• This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries to provide the conditions wherein we are able to yield ourselves to intuitive leadings, promptings, warnings, teachings, and counsels and also to the inspiring peace of the soul. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

  Paul Brunton

  Teaching, Luxury, Silence

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat”, Larson Publication

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• We also look at farming. Are we making sure that we're getting the latest seeds out to women so they can get a bigger yield off of their farms? A new type of seed that gets out to a man, let's say, that's drought resistant - because, of course, the rains are changing in Africa with climate change - if you don't put it in the hands of a woman, she won't necessarily get it. We look at breaking down all those barriers.

  Melinda Gates

  Rain, Men, Hands

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Lazy People, Scripture, Verses

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “Pink Jewels”, p.207, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Energy, Behavior

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.85, 谷月社

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• The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Joy, Looks

  Samuel Johnson (1800). “The Idler: With Additional Essays”, p.63

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