Yet Quotes

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.

I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.

Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before.

I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs.

I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.