Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilynne Robinson

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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

Grenville Kleiser

To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results.

Jacques Barzun

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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.

J. M. Coetzee

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)

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.

Ayn Rand

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Bryant H. McGill

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

Janine Benyus

Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

Daniel Handler

When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Dana Delany

Remember that you create your world. It’s not what happens to you, but how you choose to deal with it.

Bob Dylan

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

Brigitte Bardot

Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me.

Dennis Prager

All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Jeannette Walls

One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.