Yet Quotes - page 12

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more. View quote
Horatio Nelson
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent. View quote
George Crabbe
I am quite ready to acknowledge ... that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead. View quote
Socrates
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. View quote
Laozi
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
One thing I have learned in a long life that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have. View quote
Albert Einstein
Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it. View quote
M. R. James
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. View quote
Pope John Paul II
Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us. (Ambrose)
Yet such is the order of nature. While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing. View quote
Jerome
Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts. View quote
Jerome
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. View quote
Mark Strand
It's foolish to fear what we've yet to see and know. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths. View quote
Ted Dekker
My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms. View quote
Fred Saberhagen
It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men. (Charles Williams)
In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people. View quote
Dan Buettner
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you. View quote
Kate Hudson