If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo Coelho

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Henry Ward Beecher

El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
Dan Quayle

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffer

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
Mary Wollstonecraft

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.
Marlene Dietrich

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.
Gertrude Stein

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
Will Smith

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund Burke

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Jack Kerouac

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

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
William Butler Yeats

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
William Butler Yeats

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.
Michael Crichton

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.
Louis L'Amour

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov