#yet

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ↗

— Jacob August Riis

#before #blow #crack #did #gone

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they're not. We're told they can only be one thing - like handsome and charming and that's it. Nothing more. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#boundless #charming #films #handsome #like

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#agreed #been #call #deeper #divine

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full. ↗

— Boyle Roche

#centuries #cup #full #half #half full

In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#angeles #approximately #beach #bridges #constant

Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#been #certain #charities #communities #energy

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#could #i #into #like #meet

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time. ↗

— Frances E. Willard

#along #everything #going #law #moves

The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet. ↗

— Edward Witten

#beyond #dimensions #extra #extra dimensions #four

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#delicious #full #most #poetry #prose