Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

Abdul Kalam

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.

Deng Xiaoping

The minority yields to the majority!

Ben Jonson

Hell itself must yield to industry.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life

Aldo Leopold

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

David F. Houston

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

Stephen Jay Gould

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.

Michael Long

Part of this process is looking at the older kids and giving them an opportunity to see what is actually needed to succeed in the AFL.

Marty Schottenheimer

Our offensive line is not giving him a lot of space.

Steve King

Our misdirection stuff was working well, ... We still want to be want to be balanced, but you have to take what they're giving you, too.

Dan Moore

People lead by giving. Giving is power for communities and individuals.

Jim Timon

People just love to be immersed in a frightening Halloween experience. They love giving up that control.

Michele Johnson

Steve-O and Jackie were very loving, very giving people.

Howie Dickenman

Steadiness. Lenny's not going to make a lot of mistakes. And he can hit shots and play defense. He's giving us a lift.

Jeri Porter

Stephens has stepped up and done a real nice job giving us a really good low-post presence.

Tanis Ybarra

Some of these organizers are green. And when I say green, I mean totally green. We're giving them a class. Organizing 101. By the seat of the pants and the grace of God.

Ben Jordan

Parrish needs closer access to doctors, dentists and restaurants. Accepting the retail means we have to accept the homes, so it's a double-edged sword for us.

Robert Morse

People have to question the narrow scope of indicators. In many cases, these are public institutions and are accepting public funds, and they claim that they are educating students for the betterment of society. The indicators that they are using certainly aren't enough to conclude their premise that the top five schools are doing the best at that.

Ben Bernanke

Some influential voices of the time argued that by accepting higher inflation, policy-makers could bring about a permanently lower rate of unemployment.

Glenn Poshard

Our university sits in a most unique position because we have a long history of accepting and promoting diversity in our system. I don't want us to lose that mission, because that's our roots, our history.

Ron Kemp

Rest assured, the perception that nothing is being done is wrong. We work on this daily. Drug investigations are like no others. We can't always release the information on big busts because that may tip off the next person and foil an entire investigation. Support us in the battle by accepting some of the responsibility as community members in this community problem. It's not all up to law enforcement, we're only a part of the whole community.

Kurt Sanger

Management did all they could to confirm the positives that are to come, and the market seems to be accepting that.

Bethenny Frankel

When you are like a maniac, you just have to accept where you are and what's going on in your life.

David Johnson

I think the more people know about it the better. I think the problem is societal, in that you have a generation that grew up with computers. What's happening over time is people get so comfortable with computers and are accepting of software piracy, we see the same thing with plagiarism. It is so easy that they don't see a click of a mouse being a crime, but it is stealing.

Ken Whisenhunt

Jerome and Duce have taught Willie patience. They've worked with him on how to read blocks. He's been an accepting pupil. But the one thing you can't teach is his speed.