#yield

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#back #castro #cruelty #hand #invited

Everything yields to diligence. ↗

— Antiphanes

#everything #yields

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely. ↗

— Cleopatra

#honour #merely #yielded

A shady business never yields a sunny life. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#life #never #shady #sunny #yields

"Yield" was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988. ↗

— Jack Irons

#completed #daily #decision #had #i

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#congress #errs #everything #fifty #hour

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. ↗

— Helen Keller

#enemy #never #our #self-pity #wise

Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible. ↗

— Jane Swisshelm

#dying #impossible #yielding

When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#average #been #bombs #fifteen #hiroshima

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a "failed experiment." Any test that yields valid data is a valid test. ↗

— Adam Savage

#data #experiment #failed #really #science