Yes Quotes - page 3

God is love, the bishops tell. Yes, I know, But love is hell. (T. H. White)
Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power? View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
... lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and ... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to "walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want? View quote
Wassily Kandinsky
The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps- does anybody know where it was borne Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born . . . . View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Yes, we are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear. Fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly, to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.... View quote
Sukarno
Never say ‘no' to adventures. Always say ‘yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life. View quote
Ian Fleming
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I said to a guy, I said, "Tell me, what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful?", and he said, "Well, it intensifies your personality." I said, "Yes, but what if you're an asshole?" (Bill Cosby)
Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners. View quote
John McGahern
Yes, I don't read books for entertainment. View quote
Elizabeth Olsen
The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science. View quote
Alton Brown
O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be! View quote
Langston Hughes
I believe that you've created a metaphorical universe in which you can express your darkest fears. In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves, and sometimes we do such a good job, we lose track of reality. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope. View quote
Corazon Aquino
"You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.” 16 February 1999. View quote
Charlton Heston
Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me. View quote
Ahmed Ben Bella
Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not. (Brent Scowcroft)
Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries. View quote
Florenz Ziegfeld
When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works. View quote
Hannibal Buress
Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it. View quote
Payne Stewart
Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect. View quote
Robert Fitzgerald