Yield

Famous quotes containing the word yield:

    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)

    You win the victory when you yield to friends.
    Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    We devastate them unreligiously,
    And coldly ask their pottage, not their love.
    Therefore they shove us from them, yield to us
    Only what to our griping toil is due;
    But the sweet affluence of love and song,
    The rich results of the divine consents
    Of man and earth, of world beloved and lover;
    The nectar and ambrosia, are withheld.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)