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yield flames fire
Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire. Thomas Overbury
yield insight aesthetic
What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed. Susan Griffin
yield joy tears
He who sows, even with tears, the precious seed of faith, hope, and love, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves with him, because it is the very nature of that seed to yield a joyful harvest. Richard Cecil
yield waiting mind
Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him. John Smith
yield order people
A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that deals with a certain kind of meaning that has to do with putting things in relation to each other, allowing for the fact of complexity reversal, such things. Sermons are, at their best, excursions into difficulty that are addressed to people who come there in order to hear that. Marilynne Robinson
yield devil way
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. Martin Luther
yield sensual want
If any sensual weakness arise, we are to yield all our sound forces to the overthrowing of so unnatural a rebellion; wherein how can we want courage, since we are to deal against so feeble an adversary, that in itself is nothing but weakness? Nay, we are to resolve that if reason direct it, we must do it, and if we must do it, we will do it; for to say "I cannot" is childish, and "I will not" is womanish. Philip Sidney
yield black mind
Combining quantum entanglement with wormholes yields mind boggling results about black holes. But I don't trust them until we have a theory of everything which can combine quantum effects with general relativity. i.e. we need to have a full blown string theory resolve this sticky question. Michio Kaku
yield rose grace
To my surprise, Joscelin rose. ‘Phedre-’ He began, then halted. Sitting below him, I watched him smile to himself, quiet and private. ‘Phedre yields with a willow’s grace,’ he said softly. ‘And endures with the strength of mountains. Without her, life would be calm; and yet lack all meaning. Jacqueline Carey
temptation deeds lasts
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot
temptation trying stop-trying
Either offer me something I really like, or stop trying to tempt me. Mason Cooley
temptation sin invites
Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin. Fulton J. Sheen
temptation religion vices
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. Walter Bagehot
temptation treated
Beware of the temptation to see yourself as unfairly treated. Wayne Dyer
temptation politics lines
Put temptation on the unenjoyment line. Henry Rollins
temptation deals
I deal with temptation by yielding to it. Mark Twain
temptation
The only thing I cannot resist is temptation. Oscar Wilde
temptation terrible be-good
Terrible is the temptation to be good. Bertolt Brecht
absurd dear man market price sees single value
A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
absurdity
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity. Baruch Spinoza
absurdity champion defend error talkative
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative Oliver Goldsmith
absurd early four morning
I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes. Joss Whedon
absurdity subjects
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. Nicolas Chamfort
absurdity came joke life lives order smell
I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place. Kurt Braunohler
absurd adds certainty lessens shame
Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat. Laurence Sterne
absurd dreams eyes finally found hail illusion knowing lack man millennia power raise rays stars sun surrounds truly vanity
Only then man will raise his eyes to the sun that caressed with its rays so many millennia of frustration and anguish, of absurd and uncertainty, of lack of power and suffering. He will hail the sun and the stars and everything that surrounds him knowing they are all vanity of vanities. Vanity of vanities that will give man a meaning! This vanity of vanities will tell the man that he truly dreams his own Illusion of Life, that he finally found the meaning!
absurd amused became colours decides hot intrigued
I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me.