Yet Quotes

#1. No." John Newton's eyes warmed. "One has no guarantee that the path the Lords places us on will be the easy one, Elizabeth. Obedience to His will is a glorious thing, but, aye, it has many challenges. Yet," and he smiled fully, "in the end, no one can doubt that it is the best way.

Alicia A. Willis

#2. The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert of the experts. Personally I am beginning to think there is more danger in lagging than in speeding up cultural change to keep pace with mechanical change.

Mary Barnett Gilson

#3. A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,
Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.
It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.

William Butler Yeats

#4. Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. It was well past midnight, quiet, few people around. All noises had retreated. The night seemed to have its own resonance. At that hour, the city's a gong that was struck at noon and is not yet quite still.

Sam Thompson

#6. Press thy suit, yet with moderation;
A blade of grass cannot pierce a mountain.
If the sum that illumines the world
Were to dry nigher, the world would be consumed

Rumi

#7. I owe a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay and also I owed a debt to everyone who didn't get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn't got to be a person yet

John Green

#8. Perseverance is everything. We all stumbled when we took our first steps yet we were running sooner than we realized, and then we couldn't stay still. Why stay still now?

Rob Liano

#9. I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.

Poul Anderson

#10. With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget.

Danielle Steel

#12. We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So when we say we have faith in ourselves, we cannot really separate the small self from the large self.

Julia Cameron

#13. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. And I start to feel once more that the lines that have boxed in my life - between past and present, outside and in - are dissolving. That I may yet myself be delivered.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#15. Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

Friedrich Schiller

#16. I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#17. The world is finite and yet nothing ever happens more than once exactly the same way.

Brian L. Tucker

#18. Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of painting or sculpture.

Thomas Jefferson

#19. He was working fast, yet thinking went slow enough. He knew why now. He knew now that thinking went slow and smooth with calculation, as oil is spread slowly upon a surface above a brewing storm.

William Faulkner

#20. Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

Leonard Maltin

#21. There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

Henry David Thoreau

#22. We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

Bill McCollum

#23. What we need to do is stop global warming; that's the only way to stop your peanut butter cups from melting. And if that doesn't do the trick, then put them in the fridge. Or better yet, eat them.

Rush Limbaugh

#24. You speak of my drinking, yet you don't know my thirst

Scottish Proverb

#25. Live Today! Do not allow your spirit to be softened of your happiness to be limited by a day you cannot have back or a day that does not yet exist.

Steve Maraboli

#26. He hugs me. That's all he does. He hugs me tightly without a word, yet I can feel everything he's saying.

Colleen Hoover

#27. Yet he hadn't asked for anything that he hadn't been willing to give himself. - Mahri

Kathryne Kennedy

#28. Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.

Sri Aurobindo

#29. I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

David Maraniss

#30. It was painful to have him so near, yet beyond my reach.

Lynne Stringer

#31. Even the disciples of Jesus all fled from their master's cross. Christians who do not have the feeling that they must flee the crucified Christ have probably not yet understood him in a sufficiently radical way.

Jurgen Moltmann

#32. All these sorts of book feature in The Year of Reading Dangerously, which could yet be called Fifty Shades of Great.

Andy Miller

#33. I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

Philip Levine

#34. There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

Martin Heidegger

#35. I went to him & put my Hand upon his Shoulder.
Said he to me, "God forgive me. Her Name - I never knew her Name."
Which meant not a Jot to me - and yet my Heart was the Thing that broke.

M T Anderson

#36. We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

Bertrand Russell

#37. Does God exist? Well, I would say, not yet

Ray Kurzweil

#38. I didn't want him to think I was giving up - I wasn't. I simply couldn't put myself together just yet.

Markelle Grabo

#39. Never before have there been so many people capable of making a profound difference and yet never have there been so many temptations to behave otherwise.

A. Darius Husain

#40. I feel it's okay to get angry with God. He can take it. Just don't stay angry. It takes courage to believe that the best is yet to come. I hold steadfast to that belief, especially when I come face-to-face with adversity.

Robin Roberts

#41. My fame? Truly I don't consider myself famous ... long way to go yet. But if anyone does ask for an autograph it's a wonderful feeling ...

Henry Cavill

#42. Oak had nothing finished and ready to say as yet, and not being able to frame love phrases which end where they begin; passionate tales - Full of sound and fury
- signifying nothing - he said no word at all.

Thomas Hardy

#43. Pawns are such fascinating pieces, too ... So small, almost insignificant, and yet
they can depose kings. Don't you find that interesting?

Lavie Tidhar

#44. The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level.

Frederick Lenz

#45. Of course smart people know a lot and can therefore accomplish more than others less gifted. But hire them not for the knowledge they possess, but for the things they don't yet know.

Eric Schmidt

#46. And, together, the two soft forms, overlapping yet distinct, were like misty wings of silence, exquisitely-spun and spread full, surrounding our Lord in graceful symphony.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#47. There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'm thrilled to be part of them.

Charles Soule

#48. I really haven't made up my mind yet. A lot of people have encouraged me to consider running, and others have cautioned against it, saying it's a good way to ruin your life.

Sandy Hume

#49. Knowledge of facts is important. Knowledge of truth is essential. Yet our Lord's concern goes beyond mere head knowledge. He wants us not only to know the truth but also to obey the truth. He wants us to live the truth, practice the truth, and be conformed to and transformed by that truth.

Wayne Mack

#50. The mark of a good officer, Wegener repeatedly told his youngsters, was willingness to admit he had something yet to learn.

Tom Clancy

#51. Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an "always future hollow", for we are always future to ourselves.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#52. I wasn't ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn't that I wasn't right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn't right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things didn't come easy for, someone like me.

Sarah Dessen

#53. You become free like you always dreamed, yet you realise that every land is different and you do not belong anywhere yet you live everywhere and that we all share the same lands except you seem to be the only one who realises this fact

Yolanda De Iuliis

#54. Can I get you some refreshment?" Angela asked. "Ambrosia perhaps?" Was she kidding? He hadn't had ambrosia in several millennia, and where would they have procured it, anyway? "My daughter teases. We weren't expecting you so soon. It hasn't yet fermented properly.

L.J. Vickery

#55. In Two Parts You come and go so easily, your life is as you knew - while mine is split in two. How I envy so the half of me, who lived before love's due, who was yet to know of you.

Lang Leav

#56. People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.

Afrojack

#57. Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.

David Bohm

#58. Trade-offs require clear choices, yet in a world of powerful forces, it is often easier to compromise than to make difficult choices. By

Bharat Anand

#59. We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.

Robert Casey

#60. Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

Christopher Morley

#61. I can't help it. All I want to do is sleep, hide under the soft protection of the covers, and I know it isn't healthy. I know this, and yet I can't stop doing it. I've pushed Ethan away, ignoring the pain in his eyes. Ignoring everything, even the thoughts in my head.

Kristen Callihan

#62. Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?
And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

William Shakespeare

#63. Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.

Peace Pilgrim

#64. Loving someone gave them power over you, and she wasn't ready to do that just yet.

Jaci Burton

#65. The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.

John Updike

#66. COLBIE: He's a man, and they're not smart like us card-carrying vaginas. I think the penis distract them too much, yet they still managed to invent airplanes and TV. Give the guy a break.

Bijou Hunter

#67. Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.

Rabindranath Tagore

#68. It was most troubling to find there existed a pair of lips he would allow to insult him and yet still want to kiss immediately afterward.

Jayne Fresina

#69. Yet there is nothing so vulgar left in our present cultural experience for which some professor cannot be found somewhere to justify it. Reason has died.

Ravi Zacharias

#70. You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.

William Kirby

#71. I'm glad I'm feeling this way. I'm really glad."
Dr. Keyes looked rather dismayed. "Really, sweetheart?"
"Yes. And I don't want to let it go. Not yet. I'm just starting to feel it. And it feels ... I don't know. Right, I guess. Maybe even ... good.

James Patterson

#72. Our wandering life isn't over yet and before we definitely settle in Peru, a country that I admire in many ways, or in Argentina, we want to see a bit of Europe and two fascinating countries, India and China.

Hilda Gadea

#73. I had lone, schooled myself to be oblivious to pain. I had neither doubts nor fears. All the content of my mind seemed to be an absolute faith in the overlordship of the mind. This passivity was almost dream-like, and yet, in its way, it was positive almost to a pitch of exaltation.

Jack London

#74. Every day you amass knowledge in a frantic race against death that death must win. You want to find out everything in the time you have; yet in the end you wonder why you bothered, it'll all be lost. I keep trying to explain this to anyone who will listen.

Derek Raymond

#75. There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

George Eliot

#76. I'm working hard and I think I'm where I should be at by now but I'm in no hurry at all, I'm taking one fight at a time, I want to win my fights. With the title shot I don't know yet but if I get the chance someday, I will be more than ready.

Alexander Gustafsson

#77. Men held powerful stations in life, and yet the initiate knew their worldly

Dan Brown

#78. Black New Yorkers' distressing personal accounts of poverty and unemployment, inadequate housing, white supremacy and state-sanctioned violence politicized St. Clair, leading her to become one of New York's staunchest yet most unlikely voices against urban inequity.

LaShawn Harris

#79. The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes, time is a puzzling thing, there is something about it that is hard to explain.

Thomas Mann

#80. I am also incredibly proud of my party because today we have two strong woman candidates going to the country, we will have a women PM and it is the Conservative party yet again leading the way on this and it says to women all over the country you can get to the top.

Iain Duncan Smith

#81. I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

Og Mandino

#82. I often find human behavior amusing. Like having a full refrigerator of food to eat yet buying fast food instead. If you learn to conquer the two big "N" words. Niceties vs Necessities. You might actually have some funds for the hard times that come.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#83. Even if national peculiarities in character and in laws occasion differences in the curve which the woman movement describes in the different countries, yet everywhere the movement has had the same causes, must follow the same main direction, and - sooner or later - must have the same effects.

Ellen Key

#84. Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.

Leslie Fiedler

#85. I continued moving forward and found myself entering an immense void, completely dark, infinite in size, yet also infinitely comforting. Pitch black as it was, it was also brimming over with light:

Eben Alexander

#86. Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Francis Beaumont

#87. I knew the flight into the crazy skies of love would always outweigh the uncertainty of days that didn't yet belong to me.

Beth Hoffman

#88. I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.

Ned Vizzini

#89. Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust in it, and build no hope on it; and yet I went on against trust and against hope. Why repeat it a thousand times? So it always was.

Charles Dickens

#90. I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.

Natalia Kills

#91. A minister may be diligent in his work, regular in his family, resident with his people and attentive to them, and in many respects exemplary in his outward conduct, and yet not preach Jesus Christ, and him crucified.32

Tony Reinke

#92. A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

George Lillo

#93. It was freaky how once you realized you loved someone, and they felt the same way about you, they could look different, yet the same; how they felt familiar, but not.

Nyrae Dawn

#94. The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.

Henry Adams

#95. Let's put it this way: The animal inside of me has not quieted down yet. It's still there. It's still fighting.

Troy Dumais

#96. I feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I've gotten close to articulating something intangible that I'm feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don't know that I've done that yet.

Brit Marling

#97. 2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.

Matt Taibbi

#98. Suffering is universal, and yet nobody teaches us how to cope with this truth of life.

Lisa Danylchuk

#99. I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#100. Mole in the darkness, making him tingle through and through with its very familiar appeal, even while yet he could not clearly remember what it was. He stopped dead in his tracks, his nose searching hither and thither in its efforts to recapture the fine filament, the telegraphic current,

Kenneth Grahame