Famous quotes containing the words specific and/or yield:
“In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“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)