Yielding

Famous quotes containing the word yielding:

“The yielding marble of her snowy breast.”
—Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

“I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies—every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)