If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.
The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which. . . can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.
What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.
Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.
World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee Life would not yield to age.
Memory says, 'I did that. ' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that. ' Eventually, memory yields.
That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.
The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
Automating a mess yields an automated mess.
Make it a habit to praise the horse when the horse yields.
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.
Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.
We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory.
I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.
Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.
The actor's physical type isn't and shouldn't be the main consideration. Does the actor look the part? It is the simplest question to deal with. The director deludes himself who yields to the temptation to believe that an affirmative answer settles the matter. An actor's looks will impress an audience initially, but after his first five minutes on stage it becomes aware of what he or she communicates (or fails to communicate) through acting!
To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.
We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields.