Famous Quotes & Sayings

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)

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.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Only a new seed will yield a new crop.

David Guterson

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

Christopher Moore

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

Angelus Silesius

The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.

Sylvia Plath

I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses.

Sylvia Plath

Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses.

Rumi

You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?

Rumi

The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!

Sue Monk Kidd

I'd forgotten how that sort of craving felt, how it rose suddenly and loudly from the pit of my stomach like a flock of startle birds, then floated back down in the slow, beguiling way of feathers.

Maureen Johnson

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

Philip Roth

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface

Dean Koontz

Being paid well for something you love to do - it's a grace.

Andy Stanley

You can't resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.

Swami Vivekananda

Through the grace of the Almighty Power, it is sure to manifest itself in time.

Rumi

Love cannot be learned or taught. Love comes as Grace.

Stevie Nicks

I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.

Richard Steele

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

Shane Claiborne

One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.

Michael Pollan

For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.

Seth Godin

Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.