Yet Quotes - page 11

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. (Edgar Lee Masters)
While all bodies are composed of the four elements, that is, of heat, moisture, the earthy, and air, yet there are mixtures according to natural temperament which make up the natures of all the different animals of the world, each after its kind. View quote
Vitruvius
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. View quote
John Perry Barlow
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. View quote
Victor Hugo
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition. View quote
Eliza Farnham
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet. View quote
Andy Warhol
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. (Lord Byron)
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was. View quote
Geoffrey Chaucer
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. View quote
Eric Hoffer
What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin. View quote
Hannah Arendt
A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold. View quote
Theodore Parker
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. View quote
Ogden Nash
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change. View quote
Carroll Quigley
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. View quote
Toni Morrison
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. (Rabindranath Tagore)
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations. View quote
Winston Churchill
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested. View quote
Winston Churchill