Yet Quotes - page 2

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. (Arthur C. Clarke)
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. View quote
Peter Ustinov
The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. View quote
Peter Ustinov
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them. View quote
Sydney Smith
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. View quote
Thomas Szasz
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. View quote
Franz Kafka
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' View quote
Sigmund Freud
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
What a splendid head, yet no brain. (Aesop)
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. View quote
Edmund Waller
Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run? View quote
Germaine Greer
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. View quote
Groucho Marx
O God, make me good, but not yet. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman. View quote
Israel Zangwill
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it. View quote
Craig Raine
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. View quote
Blaise Pascal
For there is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope. View quote
George Eliot
Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it. View quote
Edward Snowden
I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner. (John Donne)
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers. View quote
Georg Büchner
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. View quote
Thornton Wilder
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.' View quote
Thornton Wilder