I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Samuel Butler

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
Jesse Jackson

You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.
Charlie Watts

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Lyman Abbott

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
Louisa May Alcott

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
Herbert Spencer

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
Herbert Spencer

I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.
Julius Erving

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
John Stuart Mill

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Jack Nicklaus

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
Natalie Wood

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
Nicolaus Copernicus

And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.
Billy Sunday

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Sydney J. Harris

Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.
Jacques Derrida

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
Pearl S. Buck

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
Anton Chekhov

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.
Charles Babbage