Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; The arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.
One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
The work of art. . . is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.
Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.
The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.
Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield. . . it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.
While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.
Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.
God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to reassure us that we do not have to be afraid of the darkness because darkness will always yield to light. As theologian David Griffin puts in, God is all-powerful, His power enables people to deal with events beyond their control and He gives us the strength to do those things because He is with us.
My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward. . . Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, etc. , and you throw all that together - but if there's no soul, so to speak, it won't yield much.
Yield all and trust all.
It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way. . . There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.
The Universe is responding purely to the desire that you have right now, and if the desires that you have right now are pure and unencumbered by all of your excuses about why you're not where you want to be, your vibration would be pure and the Universe would yield to you easily and it would not take years or weeks or days. It would be instant manifestation.
A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth.
One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.
Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.