Yieldingness Quotes & Sayings

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't. — Mignon McLaughlin

Nothing else in this world can renew our minds like the Bible. — Elizabeth George

All I can think about is the Iraqi kid. Lying on the blood-soaked sand. In bed surrounded by family. Gasping for breath or for death or for both. Sunken eyes and sinking self. At this time of year death is all around. The fading of the sun's rays. Blackened leaves littering the pavements. The snow graves of small things. — Darren Colgan

Now I shall spy on beauty as none has Spied on it yet. Now I shall cry out as None has cried out. Now I shall try what none Has tried. Now I shall do what none has done. — Vladimir Nabokov

The psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness, generosity, sympathy, altruism, tenderness-all the qualities, in fact, which lead straight to bankruptcy ... the American family is tragically out of gear with the profit structure which has mushroomed up around it. — Margaret Halsey

Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program. — Jinzaburo Takagi

I've hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you don't want to look at people. I used to have very short hair, but long hair is my thing - a black nocturnal shield. — Bat For Lashes

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality. — Adam Smith

The backstage play, in which the private lives of theater people are put onstage for the world to see, is one of the diciest of dramatic genres. — Terry Teachout