96 Quotes About Yield

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

You may exist in this world--but I exist too and I will not yield

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.

A sermon is a form that yields a certain kind of meaning in the same way that, say, a sonnet is a form that deals with a certain kind of meaning that has to do with putting things in relation to each other, allowing for the fact of complexity reversal, such things. Sermons are, at their best, excursions into difficulty that are addressed to people who come there in order to hear that.

Well, another senator rose and said {as they always do} 'Does the gentleman yield?' They always say that - least they call each other 'gentleman' in there. But the tone they put on the word, it would sound more appropriate if they came right out and said 'Would the coyote from Maine yield?' 'cause that's about the way it sounds. Well, then, the other senator says 'I yield' (for if he don't the other guy'll keep on talking anyhow). So the coyote from Maine says 'I yield to...the polecat from Oregon!'

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best

I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.