Initial Yield

Famous quotes containing the words initial and/or yield:

    No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
    Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

    Your hand
    skilled to yield death-blows, might break
    With the slightest turn no ill will meant
    my own lesser, yet still somewhat fine-wrought,
    fiery-tempered, delicate, over-passionate steel.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)