Yes Quotes

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. (Albert Camus)
The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought. View quote
Pythagoras
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway. View quote
Erma Bombeck
There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says "yes" you know he is a crook. View quote
Groucho Marx
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so. View quote
Norman Mailer
It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. View quote
E. E. Cummings
To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Yes, this is what is good: to forgive evil. There is no other good. View quote
Antonio Porchia
Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal - there's the trick! (Mikhail Bulgakov)
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe? View quote
Quentin Crisp
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. View quote
Tony Blair
Yes is the answer and you know that for sure. Yes is surrender, you got to let it, you got to let it go... View quote
John Lennon
Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad. View quote
William James
For all that has been - Thanks. For all that shall be - Yes. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. View quote
Shania Twain
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown. View quote
Thomas Hardy
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever. View quote
Viggo Mortensen
Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it. (Louisa May Alcott)
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say. View quote
Edith Wharton
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own. View quote
Henry Rollins
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
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