Yes Quotes - page 2

I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something, and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. (Dag Hammarskjöld)

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

Alexander Alekhine

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, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.

Truman Capote

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

Tennessee Williams

I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.

Leonard Bernstein

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.

Wallace Stevens

I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Elie Wiesel

I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.

Neve Campbell

I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.'

Steven Wright

Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.

Charles de Gaulle

Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children. (Marvin Minsky)

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.

Richard J. Daley

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Joseph Campbell

Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Pietro Aretino

And will you succeed Yes indeed, yes indeed Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed.

Dr. Seuss

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

E. E. Cummings

Yes, the universe had a beginning. Yes, the universe continues to evolve. And yes, every one of our body's atoms is traceable to the big bang and to the thermonuclear furnace within high-mass stars. We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out - and we have only just begun.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be.

Samuel Beckett

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Samuel Beckett

Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, Yes but if we have such another victory, we are undone. (Francis Bacon)

Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

John Brunner

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

Dilma Rousseff

Oh yes, there is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

Helen Rowland

Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.

T. H. White

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