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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
Author:
Xun Zi
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What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three.
Author:
Roy Williams
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
Author:
Katharine Whitehorn
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The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound.
Author:
Mark White
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All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
Author:
Earl Warren
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We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Author:
Virgil
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Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
Author:
Virgil
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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.
Author:
Howard Thurman
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Author:
Alfred Tennyson
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The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth.
Author:
Peter Straub
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Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.
Author:
George Stigler
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
Author:
Sophocles
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
Author:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs.
Author:
Joseph Rotblat
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You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
Author:
Leopold Ranke
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Author:
Quintilian
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
Author:
Quintilian
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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Author:
Plutarch
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
Author:
Pindar
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Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
Author:
Pope Paul VI
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Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.
Author:
Alexandra Paul
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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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We must renew our efforts to keep our communities safe, from the dangers of terrorists from foreign lands and from common criminals here at home. Let no criminal believe that tough fiscal times will yield an open cell door and a ticket to freedom.
Author:
Bill Owens
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Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
Author:
Marshall McLuhan
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Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will.
Author:
John McCain
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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
Author:
Douglas MacArthur
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It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.
Author:
Alex Lowe
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No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
Author:
Mary Leakey
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Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.
Author:
Rick Larsen
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A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
Author:
Letitia Landon
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Author:
Jack Kerouac
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Author:
Helen Keller
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
Author:
Immanuel Kant
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If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
Author:
Henry James
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It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
Author:
Muhammed Iqbal
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If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.
Author:
Anne Hutchinson
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We are free to yield to truth.
Author:
Horace
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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Author:
Anthony Hope
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Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
Author:
Barbara Hepworth
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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.
Author:
Barbara Hepworth
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Author:
Robert Heinlein
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The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.
Author:
Robert Grosseteste
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When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.
Author:
Daniel Goleman
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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.
Author:
Rita Dove
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Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Author:
Confucius
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Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
Author:
Maria Chapman
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It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
Author:
Sitting Bull
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Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.
Author:
Thomas Brooks
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The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
Author:
Louis Brandeis
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
Author:
F. Bradley
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The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.
Author:
Paul Boyer
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Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
Author:
Max Bill
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
Author:
Gary Becker
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
Author:
Bernard Baruch
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The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.
Author:
William Ames
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It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.
Author:
Sidney Altman
