Quotes by Yield There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years. Henry Ford yield vegetables years The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty. Herbert Read yield may art The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. Henry James yield writing country If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler. Henry David Thoreau yield real work Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy. Henry Miller yield produce joy Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields. Friedrich Nietzsche yield pride memories How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return? Honore de Balzac envy yield vices An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded me to man before, and that without wound or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now. Howard Pyle yield body men Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. Horace yield laziness sloth Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies. Howard Thurman yield mean commitment He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise. Horace Mann yield temptation men The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield. Holly Black yield powerful hate Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God. Hubert Van Zeller yield grace character The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies. Horace Mann yield law fall Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire’s budget deficits. It has no moral significance. Haruki Murakami yield cost revenge To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic. Hugo Rahner yield magic play All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque. Herman Melville yield money art Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge. Herman Melville mustache yield courage If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on the other, must yield to a new vision that connects us with everything else and leads us to care for and take responsibility for it. Huston Smith yield responsibility people Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. Honore de Balzac yield sound men «910111213141516171819»
