Yet Quotes - page 5

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe ... every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy. (Hannes Alfvén)
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
Thou hast seen nothing yet. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other. View quote
Anton Chekhov
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. View quote
Erich Fromm
Modern man thinks he loses something time when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it. View quote
Erich Fromm
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. View quote
Hosea Ballou
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. View quote
Hannah Arendt
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back. (Horace)
It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true. View quote
Matthew Henry
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. View quote
William Shakespeare
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. View quote
Mark Twain
Of all actions of a man's life his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life 'tis most meddled with by other people. View quote
John Selden
The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss. View quote
Max Stirner
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. View quote
Winston Churchill
Where does the family start It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found. View quote
Winston Churchill
Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, who suffered death because she chose to turn. (Anna Akhmatova)
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. View quote
Walt Disney
To live alone one must be an animal or a god --says Aristotle. There is yet a third case one must be both --a philosopher. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre