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.

Marquis de Sade

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.

Neal A. Maxwell

The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

Mitt Romney

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.

Publilius Syrus

Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.

Richard Perle

When you gaze into souls, it's something you should update periodically, because souls can change.

Richelle Mead

Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

Richelle Mead

I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back on her now, I felt another piece die as well. Soon there wouldn't be anything left inside me.

Richard Bach

What was the question? ...Oh. Where do I get my crazy ideas? Answer: sleep-fairy, walk-fairy, shower-fairy. Book-fairy. And in these last few years, from my wife. Now when I have questions I ask her and she tells me the answer. If you haven't already, I'd suggest you want to find your soulmate, as soon as you can. Next question?

William S. Burroughs

I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer.

William Law

The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.

William Jennings Bryan

Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.

Vinoba Bhave

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.

Virchand Gandhi

Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.

William Zinsser

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.

Robert T. Bakker

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

Virgil

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses

Friedrich Schiller

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

Novalis

Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .

Eric Ries

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

Ovid

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

Pat Buchanan

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

Martin Heidegger

I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.