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)

“I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven!
Wind, rain, and thunder, remember earthly man
Is but a substance that must yield to you.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)