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If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
— Anonymous
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.
— Saint Francis De Sales
Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.
— William Wordsworth
Drosophila has long been our main workhorse in genetics, yielding insight in the relation between chromosomes and genes.
— Frans De Waal
Yielding to emotions such as anger or hurt or defensiveness will drive away the Holy Ghost.
— Richard G. Scott
Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.
— Laozi
The old order changes yielding place to new.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I deal with temptation by yielding to it.
— Mark Twain
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, to yielding.
— Bette Davis
Love means giving up - yielding my preferences, comfort, goals, security, money, energy, or time for the benefit of someone else.
— Rick Warren
Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything to keep her son alive another day.
— Antonia Perdu
Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!
— John Buchanan Robinson
The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.
— Laozi
If a branch is too rigid, it will break. Resist, and you will perish. Know how to yield, and you will survive.
— Liezi
Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding.
— Catherynne M Valente
There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)
— Billy Graham
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
— Clarence Darrow
If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk
— Jane Austen
Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.
— Laozi
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
— Dean Acheson
No matter how far back Ned searched in the brittle yellowed pages, always he found the gold yielding before the coal.
— George R R Martin
To submit isn't to be forced. It's to yield to a force greater than your own, in order to become part of the whole.
— Dianna Hardy
I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made room.
— Sheridan Hay
The fact is, successful relationships and healthy cultures are not built on the claiming of rights but on the yielding of rights.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.
— Sai Baba
He preferred yielding his own wish to gratify others, rather than to insist upon having his own way.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
— Edmund Burke
Principles have a way of yielding to power.
— Bette Lord
Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.
— Billy Graham
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
— George Henry Lewes
The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.
— Sheri S. Tepper
Not all powers are spectacular. Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.
— Rick Riordan
A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.
— Thomas Browne
Yielding your inner life to God will empower you to live the kind of outer life that honors the Lord and blesses others.
— Jim George
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
— Queen Elizabeth II
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
— Joseph Campbell
I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being.
— Esther Hicks
In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.
— Peter Weiss
Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.
— James E. Faust
It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.
— Alexandre Dumas
Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.
— Sugata Mitra
The point of politics is to keep multiple and irreducible goods in play, rather than yielding to some dream, Nazi or otherwise, of totality. -
— Timothy Snyder
My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.
— Robert Breault
Both the teardrop and the tempest are made of water, making it the most yielding and most destructive force on Earth.
— Fiona Paul
She feels bruised by her reading and by life too. She wonders, does she always fight her books before yielding to them?
— Austin Wright
Yielding is the way of the Tao.
— Laozi
The Christian confession is not a neutral proposition; it is prayer, only yielding its meaning within prayer.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.
— Jane Swisshelm
That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.
— Laozi
The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear".
— J. P. McEvoy
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
— George Whitefield
I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.
— Socrates
Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?
— Honore De Balzac
All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.
— Blaise Pascal
True faith is not hard at all. It is soft in its resilience, yielding in its certitude - the vehicle for absolute grace.
— Karen Maezen Miller
If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.
— Beryl Markham
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.
— Philip Sidney