Yielding
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Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper.
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Yielding Quotations
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Quentin Crisp
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
Elizabeth II
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
George Whitefield
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
Billy Sunday
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette Davis
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
George Henry Lewes
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
Dean Acheson
Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!
John Buchanan Robinson
Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.
Jane Swisshelm
Yielding Translations
yielding in French is rendant
yielding in German is gewinnend
yielding in Swedish is foglig, undfallande
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