Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willard Van Orman Quine

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

Poul Anderson

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

B. C. Forbes

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

Barbara Hepworth

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.

Otto von Bismarck

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.

June Jordan

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

Joyce Meyer

When discipline is sown, like a good seed, it yields a harvest of things that fulfill and satisfy us-things that make us happy and release peace and joy in our lives.

Paul D. Boyer

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

Katharine Whitehorn

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.

Wayne Dyer

I always had the thought I could attract abundance.

Andy Kennedy

Play fast, play athletic. You may not always have a 6-10 kid, but there's an abundance of kids, 6-4 to 6-7, that are interchangeable parts.

E. B. White

People who live from abundance feel that there is more than enough of everything in the world to go around. More than enough money, food, work, material things, more than enough love. Why do they feel that way? Because they see that they themselves are enough. They are not dependent on external influences to make them feel more whole and complete.

Jennifer Devine

Relative abundance is an index of what's out there. We know a lot of these species move, but within what we have the data for, we are seeing this decline range.

Thomas Paine

Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men who can forgive sins, and you will have sins in abundance

Bryn Austin

This means that five days a week, we are sending our school children into environments where there is an abundance of high-calorie, low-nutritional-quality, inexpensive food.

Charles Barnett

This is yet another fantastic entry. Class is in abundance and we have tremendous support from the Irish.

Damien Rice

I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.

Dave Byron

We're just opening them in an extreme abundance of caution.

Roger Boyd

They have not made that request ... if they do I am sure we would.

Victor Borge

I normally don't do requests. Unless, of course, I have been asked to do so.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Trust is not a request, Trust is earned.