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yield people democracy
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. Walter Cronkite
yield subsidies prudent
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. Willard Van Orman Quine
yield people generosity
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) Wendell Berry
yield age teeth
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 understanding conquer
Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.
yield whim universe
I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will. Marquis de Sade
yield soul soil
The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down. Neal A. Maxwell
yield views hands
In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return. Mitt Romney
yield venus seduction
Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion. Publilius Syrus
views may mass
It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass. Robert Collier
views people trying
When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view. Rob Zombie
views arms sometimes
Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath. Richard Paul Evans
views common-sense religion
[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd. Richard P. Feynman
views special kind
We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it. Richard Dawkins
views different definitions
Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term. Richard Whately
views your-side people
We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good? Richelle Mead
views toes novelists
Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes. Truman Capote
views people black
I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts. Trisha Goddard
hands raised shocked victory
I wouldn't be shocked if he had his hands raised (in victory). Gary Shaw
hands kelly passes ran took
Kelly just ran the offense. He took high-percentage passes and put it in our hands to make plays. Lee Evans
hands onto risk simply
Just simply splashing around in the water, if there is sewage contamination there is a risk you could get it onto your hands and get it into your mouth,
hands internet
Hands Off the Internet is a completely AT&T-funded puppet.
hands meddle
Hands off! I do not molest what I photograph, I do not meddle and I do not arrange. Dorothea Lange
hands heart issue size
Hands down it's not even an issue about your size. If you can play football, you have the heart to go out and make plays, size doesn't matter.
hands jail
hands down, even if in jail or in the grave.
hands plus
Hands are always conspicuous, and if used carelessly, they'll always detract, never be a plus to the enhancement of personality. Loretta Young
hands huge learn loves maybe pass quite run running
He's got huge hands but they're soft. He loves to run pass routes. Maybe not quite as much as block, but he loves to learn the little things about running pass routes.