Yet Quotes - page 6

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
A scary but yet beautiful smile. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. View quote
Renzo Piano
France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really. View quote
Brandon Lee
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time. View quote
Joan D. Vinge
A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens. View quote
John Coleman
And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists. View quote
George Stigler
How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd. View quote
Irene Nemirovsky
Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember...... (Klaus Mann)
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power, You just take it. View quote
Roseanne Barr
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life. View quote
Nam June Paik
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they the Colonies raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. View quote
Daniel Webster
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. View quote
Horace Mann
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. View quote
Andrew Jackson
Although in our country the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a part only, but of the whole people of the United States. View quote
James K. Polk
The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world. View quote
Georges Simenon
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. View quote
Paulo Coelho
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. (George Eliot)
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward and the hand may be a little child's. View quote
George Eliot
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. View quote
George Eliot
These bitter sorrows of childhood when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless. View quote
George Eliot
And yet to every bad there is a worse. View quote
Thomas Hardy