Yes Quotes
5434 Yes quotes by 3110 unique authors
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Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles.
— Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
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An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move…
— Tina Fey
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Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes"…
— Brooks Atkinson
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Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.
— Edith Wharton
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Yes, would to God that I could persuade the rich and the mighty that they would permit the whole Bible to be painted on houses,…
— Martin Luther
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The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday,…
— Truman Capote
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You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream…
— Jesse Jackson
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The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear".
— J. P. McEvoy
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What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of…
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
— Oprah Winfrey
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Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.
— Josephine Baker
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Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only…
— Stephen King
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The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain…
— William S. Burroughs
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Yes it's her husband. She hasn't got over it. Died thirty years ago.
— John Cleese
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Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.
— Zaha Hadid
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Yes, it's tough, but not as tough as doing comedy.
— Edmund Gwenn
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Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.
— Unknown Author
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Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is, and so treat…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical…
— Gustav Nossal
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The flowers, the gorgeous, mystic multi-coloured flowers are not the flowers of life, but people, yes people are the true flowers of life, and it…
— Lord Buckley
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Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you…
— Leonard Peltier
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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Every 'No' gets me closer to a 'Yes'.
— Mark Cuban
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We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on…
— Peter Singer
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