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.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

Sandra Bullock

I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."

Tyra Banks

I've always seen modeling as a stepping stone.

Walter Winchell

He (Alexander Woollcott) always praises the first production of each season, being reluctant to stone the first cast.

Louis MacNeice

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

Eric Kripke

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

Keith Richards

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.

Muddy Waters

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

Elizabeth I

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

Lenny Bruce

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

Bay Buchanan

He did everything correct. They feel that they have a right to all information about his life, and they simply do not.

Chris Hill

I think it's important that people get to know as much information as possible. I was very supportive of it.

Rob Baskin

I think the key is to share the information you have when you have it with the public, with the press, with regulatory or governmental officials. That's important, to be open and transparent with communications.

Jim Moran

It is premature, we don't have enough information and . . . it may turn out to be unnecessary.

Bryan Whitman

I don't have any specific information on these images.

James Jeffrey

I don't have any more information for you on that.

Arlen Specter

Had that information been shared with the FBI, which was trying to get it, 9/11 might have been prevented,

William S. Burroughs

Paranoia is just having the right information.

Sam Walton

Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.