Wayne Gretzky

I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.

Canadian Hockey Player

Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Lebanese Poet

Michel de Montaigne

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

French Philosopher

Marlene Dietrich

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.

American Actress

Jean-Paul Sartre

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Gordon B. Hinckley

When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.

American Clergyman

Swami Vivekananda

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Indian Clergyman

W. E. B. Du Bois

How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!

American Writer

George Santayana

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Spanish Philosopher

Saint Augustine

Saint

Use 'yet' to show that something expected has not happened.

Expectation Not Met

'Yet' often suggests progress is ongoing or assessment is interim.

Progress Indication

'Yet' is commonly used with the present perfect tense to indicate time up to now.

Present Perfect Pair

As a conjunction, 'yet' introduces a contrast against expectations.

Contrary Expectations

'Yet' can add dramatic emphasis to contrasts or unexpected results.

Strong Emphasis

Indicates something is increasing beyond what has been mentioned.

Intensity Increase

Suggests that what has happened is not the limit; more can come.

Possibility of More

Use 'and yet' to add a layer of complexity or subtlety to a statement.

Adding Nuance

'And yet' often introduces a reflective thought or contemplation.

Reflective Pause

 like arithmetic, that they've otherwise mastered. Academic anxiety certainly isn't limited to math, but it does seem to happen much more frequently, and cause more harm in that subject. So why would that be? Researchers aren't yet sure, but some studies suggest

Why do people get so...

 or glorious works of art that fill the night sky. At the very least, you'd think they'd be revealing their presence, deliberately or otherwise, through electromagnetic signals of one kind or another. And yet we see no convincing evidence of any of it.

Questions No One Knows...

 Is it all we need? Do we need it at all? If romantic love has a purpose, neither science nor psychology has discovered it yet. But over the course of history, some of our most respected philosophers have put forward some intriguing theories.

Why do we love? A...

 The taller letters have been named gallows characters. The manuscript is highly decorated throughout with scroll-like embellishments. It appears to be written by two or more hands, with the painting done by yet another party.

The world’s most...

 yet universally practiced? Now, throughout history, men practically had a license to cheat with little consequence, and supported by a host of biological and evolutionary theories that justified their need to roam,

Rethinking infidelity...

 I'm not sure anyone knows the answer to that question, yet fantastical, fictional worlds are created everyday in our minds, on computers, even on napkins at the restaurant down the street.

How to build a fictional...

 and yet this is what happened I would have been paralyzed by guilt about my privilege except that Kennedy said to me with great compassion

Yet

Expectation Not Met

Progress Indication

Present Perfect Pair

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