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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

Margaret Cavendish

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

B. C. Forbes

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

John Glover

I think we all have madness in us, it's just that I've realized mine and found a way to let it out.

William Golding

Worse than madness. Sanity.

Joe Orton

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness.

Megan Duffy

It's March Madness and its tournament time and we are going to play for our lives. We needed this win big time and this is what I live for.

Ed Perlmutter

It's madness, but you also have people speaking on your behalf.

Marguerite Duras

Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer.

Naguib Mahfouz

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

R. D. Laing

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

Jane Green

Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books.

Mao Zedong

There is great disorder under heaven...the situation is excellent.

J. J. Johnson

Patients with pain and mobility disorders won't have to travel to multiple clinics for their care.

James Gray

I am an Ashkenazi Jew, and there are a whole host of genetic disorders that only Ashkenazi Jews have. I don't know if you know this, but 16 or 17 disorders that we carry the gene for.

The Assembly

If there is disorder in the (public) gallery, the galleries will be cleared.

Carl Gustav Jung

All religions are therapies for the sorrows and disorders of the soul.

Laura Wilkinson

There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.

Gary Grahl

A person with an eating disorder will always say they're full, but I was always hungry. I liked feeling hunger because it felt like power.

Kathryn Prescott

The reason most people get eating disorders is because they want to be skinny, but they do it stupidly, and they stop eating completely - nobody knows anything about nutrition or exercise. I think it should be a separate subject in school.