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yield half defeat
He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully. Christian Nestell Bovee
yield mind plant
To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results. Grenville Kleiser
yield mind tragedy
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy Jacques Barzun
yield fire giving
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
yield voice giving
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
yield statistics imperfect
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation. Poul Anderson
yield satisfaction bargaining
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. B. C. Forbes
yield office done
I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done. Katharine Whitehorn
yield crops seeds
Only a new seed will yield a new crop. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
temptation sin invites
Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin. Fulton J. Sheen
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
temptation great-success
Great success is a great temptation. Theodore Parker
temptation wickedness world
Very simply, the Spirit of Elijah is the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Elijah will influence anyone who is involved in this work. That, for a young person in the wickedness in the world in which we live today, is one of the greatest safeguards against the temptations of the adversary. The Spirit of Elijah will not only bless you, it will protect you. David A. Bednar
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
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
absurdity bearded food funny laugh mall mask men puts roller slowly
Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. T. J. Miller
absurd behaving law nature prevent star
I think there should be a law of Nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way! Sir Eddington
absurd attention campaign desperate divert issues leadership matter merely photo smear
The allegations are completely untrue, and dredging up a photo from when I was 22 years old is pretty desperate stuff. This is merely part of an absurd smear campaign to divert attention from the issues that matter in this leadership contest. George Osborne
absurd act action almost daft referred sexual somewhat strikes together
It always strikes me as somewhat absurd that strikes are referred to as ""industrial action"", for they are nothing of the sort, almost as daft as the sexual act being described as ""sleeping together John Copeland
absurdity baseball dressed golf managers ready second spectators tradition uniforms wearing wonderful
In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18. Willie Geist
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The failure of woman to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it n Anna Spencer