Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Cronkite

To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. ... It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

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.

Wendell Berry

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth)

Ovid

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

Ovid

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

Poul Anderson

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

Oscar Wilde

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Laurence D. Fink

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me its a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Lafcadio Hearn

I may venture to say, loosely, that in Judo there is a sort of counter for every twist, wrench, pull, push or bend. Only the Judo expert does not oppose such movements at all. No, he yields to them. But he does much more than yield to them. He aids them with a wicked sleight that causes the assailant to put out his own shoulder, to fracture his own arm, or in a desparate case, even to break his own neck or back.

Mark Buchanan

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

Oscar Wilde

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

Terry Pratchett

Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

Periander

He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

Livy

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

James Thurber

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

Peter Goldmark

I went to the government to seek help from our counterterrorism experts, ... The counterterrorism officials then in the White House refused to give us any help.

Keith Ellison

Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.

Samuel Butler

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

Greg Toczydlowski

Industry experts predict that hybrids could make up nearly 15 percent of total registered vehicles within the next decade.

Luc Montagnier

I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.

Margaret Chan

All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee's area of work. If a declared interest is potentially significant, then the expert is either excluded from the meeting or given a restricted role.

Ben Stein

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.

Lennart Nilsson

Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.