Yet Quotes - page 9

In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. (Joseph Campbell)
Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword. View quote
Oscar Wilde
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die. View quote
Don DeLillo
I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead. View quote
Maynard James Keenan
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. View quote
George Herbert
People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing. View quote
Alice Cooper
Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. (Bertrand Russell)
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace. View quote
Yitzhak Rabin
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. View quote
Linus Torvalds
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet. View quote
Joe Haldeman
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. View quote
Isaac Asimov
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas. View quote
Paul Cézanne
The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy. View quote
Charles Lamb
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them. View quote
Charles Lamb
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. (John Calvin)
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds. View quote
Lewis Carroll
People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do -- after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty. View quote
William Faulkner