Quotes by Yield Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room. Virginia Woolf yieldpassionrooms Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room. Virginia Woolf yieldpassioncivilization Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them. Wafa Sultan yieldchurchpeople It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony. W. Somerset Maugham harmonyyieldcharacter We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made. Walter Brueggemann yieldselfprayer ... [L]ess than at any time does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality. A photograph of the Krupp works or GEC yields almost nothing about those institutions. Reality proper has slipped into the functional. The reification of human relationships, the factory, let's say, no longer reveals these relationships. Therefore something has to be constructed, something artificial, something set up. Walter Benjamin yieldsimplereality To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. 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 yielddemocracypeople A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty. Walter Cronkite world-governmentyieldorder It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order. Walter Cronkite world-governmentyieldorder Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: Walter Raleigh yieldromantic-lovepassion Be aware of the level of the stock market. Are yields low and PE ratios high? Walter Schloss investingyieldlevels We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could. Walter Savage Landor yieldfateacceptance We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and Warren Buffett yieldwaryears You have hedge funds and people like that buying these assets to yield 15 or 20 percent, I mean, that's the buyer for these people that are trying to unload them. Warren Buffett yieldmeanpeople When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1/20th of one percent, that means the whole country is basically at the point virtually, or a lot of the country is at the point of putting the money under the mattress. Warren Buffett yieldmeancountry 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 generosityyieldpeople All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God has already established the laws. It is four us to discover them, and to learn the facts by which we can obey them. Wheeler McMillen yieldprogresslaw Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation. Willard Van Orman Quine quotationsfalsehoodyield 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 subsidiesincomeyield Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease. William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling yieldeasemay«2728293031323334353637»
