Y Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with Y. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Yeryüzünde keşfedildikten sonra bozulmamış hiçbir doğal cennet yoktur! Bir doğal cennetin doğal kalabilmesinin tek bir yolu vardır: Keşfedilmemiş olmak!”
“Yeryüzünde ormanlar var olduğu sürece, çöllerin güzelliğinden konuşmaya devam edeceğiz. Ama son orman yok olduğunda, çöllerin hiçbir güzelliği de kalmayacak!”
“Yeryüzünde yaşamayı hak etmek, öncelikle dünyayı sevmeyi gerektirir!”
“Yeryüzünde çok sınırlı bir zamanımız var; mumlarla geçirdiğimiz zamanlar her zaman özel ve büyülü zamanlardır.”
“Yeryüzündeki en büyük fırtınalar doğada değil zihnimizde kopar!”
“Yeryüzünün güzelliği gökyüzünün güzelliğiyle tamamlandığında güzellik ötesi bir güzellik ortaya çıkar!”
“Yerüstündeki evsizlerini bile hatırlayamayan bir toplum yeraltındaki madencilerini nasıl hatırlayacak?”
“Yes”
“Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.”
“Yes - Action is the key! Cuz - when we take action we get a result - it might not always be the result we want but nevertheless it's a result - something we can learn from.”
“Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.”
“Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.”
“Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.”
“Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.”
“Yes ...I am a demon. There's no way I could understand my prey, a human's sense of taste. What I understand is...only the taste of a human's soul.”
“Yes, a deep lesson from the postage stamp. It attaches itself to a moveable material, the envelope and gets going. A good relationship keeps you going forward; a bad one keeps you static. Attach yourself to someone who is also going forward and you will also get there.”
“Yes. A language that will at last say what we have to say. For our words no longer correspond to the world. When things were whole, we felt confident that our words could express them. But little by little these things have broken apart, shattered, collapsed into chaos. And yet our words have remained the same. Hence, every time we try to speak of what we see, we speak falsely, distorting the very thing we are trying to represent. […] Consider a word that refers to a thing- “ umbrella”, for example. […] Not only is an umbrella a thing, it is a thing that performs a function. […] What happens when a thing no longer performs its function? […] the umbrella ceases to be an umbrella. It has changed into something else. The word, however, has remained the same. Therefore it can no longer express the thing.”
“Yes, a lifetime of happiness. If it were only the first half hour's happiness, Tavy, I would buy it for you with my last penny. But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.”
Source: Man and Superman
“Yes, a person can accept your apology and forgive you for what you’ve said, but they will never forget how you made them feel at that very moment. Words can stick in a person’s mind, heart, and spirit long after the words have been spoken. Don’t be in denial; words have GREAT power. Be wise when you speak!”
“Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.”
Source: The Return
“Yes,' agreed Mike. 'Not forever. But it's your family that has turned this into two worlds. With me he'll have a choice. I will do everything in my power to give my son a choice.”
Source: All God's Children
“Yes! all is past—swift time has fled away,
Yet its swell pauses on my sickening mind;
How long will horror nerve this frame of clay?
I'm dead, and lingers yet my soul behind.
Oh! powerful Fate, revoke thy deadly spell,
And yet that may not ever, ever be,
Heaven will not smile upon the work of Hell;
Ah! no, for Heaven cannot smile on me;
Fate, envious Fate, has sealed my wayward destiny.”
“Yes, all the newspapers do say the same thing. That's true. But so it is the same thing that all the frogs croak before a storm. One can hear nothing for them.”
Source: ANNA KARENINA
“Yes, all you French workers have that one idea: you want to dig up a treasure and live on it for evermore in selfish and lazy isolation. You make a great song against the rich, but when fortune give you some money you haven't the guts to give it back to the poor. You will never deserve to be happy so long as you have personal possessions, and your hatred of the bourgeois simply comes from your mad desire to be bourgeois yourselves in their place!”
Source: Germinal
“Yes, all you need do is to change your orientation and have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ that He can make you whole, change your status, and add value to your destiny.”
Source: The Prince and the Pauper
“Yes. America is burning, and the fire is so big that it obscures reality, so big that we all bought tickets, so big that we enjoy watching, so big that we say, “Fire is all there is, all there ever will be, and so I’ll burn too.” But could we snuff it out? Could we finally see the ashes and the truth that lies in their flakes? Would we want to see it? It doesn’t matter what we want. That’s all that’s mattered so far and look where it got us.
Yes. I can pour the first bucket. No fire wants to be put out, but it doesn’t want to burn either. It’s just reacting. Everything and everyone is just reacting constantly. And now I am going act, to operate outside the fire, to be the first wave of a deluge that will end America as we know it. Good riddance.”
Source: Teething and Other Tales From the American Dystopia
“Yes America is my homeland, for she adopted me when nobody knew I existed, but no one nation is superior to me than the rest.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Yes, American history is complicated and hard. All history is complicated and hard. Human life, past and present, is never simple. Every family history is checkered, to some extent, and with great inheritances come humbling challenges. But I believe Americans are brave enough to face those challenges, to overcome adversity, celebrate our triumphs---to be a teachable people who learns from our history and goes confidently into the future with, as Lincoln said, "malice toward none and charity for all.”
Source: Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland
“Yes, an actual full-sized camel. If you find that confusing, just think how the criosphinx must have felt.
Where did the camel come from, you ask? I may have mentioned Walt’s collection of amulets. Two of them summoned disgusting camels. I’d
met them before, so I was less than excited when a ton of dromedary flesh flew across my line of sight, plowed into the sphinx, and collapsed on top
of it. The sphinx growled in outrage as it tried to free itself. The camel grunted and farted.
“Hindenburg,” I said. Only one camel could possibly fart that badly. “Walt, why in the world—?”
“Sorry!” he yelled. “Wrong amulet!”
The technique worked, at any rate. The camel wasn’t much of a fighter, but it was quite heavy and clumsy. The criosphinx snarled and clawed
at the floor, trying unsuccessfully to push the camel off; but Hindenburg just splayed his legs, made alarmed honking sounds, and let loose gas.
I moved to Walt’s side and tried to get my bearings.”
Source: The Serpent's Shadow
“Yes, and Eliza and I composed a precocious critique of the Constitution of the United Staes of America, too. We argued that it was a good scheme for misery as any, since its success in keeping the common people reasonably happy and proud depended on the strength of the people themselves-- and yet it described no practical machinery which would tend to make the people, as opposed to their elected representatives, strong.”
Source: Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
“Yes and I appreciate it. But this is going to be difficult enough without running my words through a filter of illiteracy.”
Source: Hounded (with two bonus short stories): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book One
“Yes, and I'm ready to wade through blood for him, but there is no blood, only a false sickly slime — I can't live in fogs and falsehoods, I must live in the open, I must find my way out, I must find someone else, and I have found someone else.”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“Yes, and I totally forgot about the ottoman when we went to Iris's apartment. She didn't have the room for it, so she must've brought it here." Aunt Barb shook her head when they reached the ottoman. "An ottoman is a rich-people thing, when you think about it. It requires room. Space. I'm not rich by any means, but I have room for an ottoman. I assumed she did too." Aunt Barb sighed. "I don't know what I was thinking. I've been so insensitive, living in my own little world."
"That's not true. You didn't know."
"Maybe I didn't want to know, or maybe I should have known. Isn't that the height of insensitivity? That you just didn't know, because you couldn't imagine that people lived a different life from the one you do?" Aunt Bard kept shaking her head. "Isn't that the very definition of insensitivity? Of selfishness?”
Source: Betrayed
“Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“Yes and no are very powerful words. Mean them when you say them. Respect them when you hear them.”
“Yes and no. Specifically no.”
Source: Borders of Infinity
“Yes and no. Because America has only about 1 percent of the population serving in the military, it is hard for many civilians to understand the sacrifices military families make. However, my experience is that after the Vietnam War, the public learned that they should support the military whether or not they support the war. You've seen that outpouring of support for the veterans of both Iraq and Afghanistan.”
“Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.”
“Yes, and still shall I persevere, with no less enthusiasm, knowing that my conviction shall at least be clear.”
“Yes, and that they were not Lolthians, that their society was neither cruel nor unjust. Quite the opposite, for if what Freewindle told me in his rambling tales of these drow is true, we have come upon a society that is egalitarian and moral, a place where you survive because you can rely on others and where they survive because they know they can rely on you. Do you now understand what such a promise means to me, who had to survive Menzoberranzan?”
Source: Starlight Enclave
“Yes, and then it’s these things that cause the whites to say we’re not worthy of first-class citizenship.” “Ah …” He dropped his hands to his sides hard in frustration. “Isn’t it so? They make it impossible for us to earn, to pay much in taxes because we haven’t much in income, and then they say that because they pay most of the taxes, they have the right to have things like they want. It’s a vicious circle, Mr. Griffin, and I don’t know how we’ll get out of it. They put us low, and then blame us for being down there and say that since we are low, we can’t deserve our rights.”
Source: Black Like Me
“Yes, and then it will be just as nice to luxuriate in your thousands of books, knowing in your heart that each one has been accounted for, and that even if you lived a hundred lifetimes you'd never be able to read them all."
She looked over to him, her ruse falling away. "I wish to catalog them so we can open the library to all of Aveyon, actually."
He paused to study her. "Truly?"
"Truly." She hated that her plans surprised him, but she hated how much it bothered her even more. "If you'll excuse me, I have to see to some things."
She left him standing there in the courtyard, dumbfounded, and it gave her a small bit of pleasure.”
Source: Rebel Rose
“Yes. And when a rake finally falls, he falls forever.”
Source: The Perfect Rake
“Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.”
“Yes, as distasteful as it is, it is beneficial to talk to people who disagree with us. So if you hate conspiracy theories and run into someone who believes that we faked the moonlanding and Einstein plagiarized relativity from his mailman, don't tell him, 'You life is a cruel joke' and walk away. Have tea with him. It can broaden your style of thinking, and it's cheaper than seeing a therapist.”
Source: Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change
“Yes—at the cost of a third of your army. What will happen when you try to seize what remains of Tamoura? When the Beldish strike at you again? Queen Maeve is watching you, I’m sure.” He takes a deep breath. “Adelina, you’re Queen of the Sealands now. You’ve annexed Domacca and northern Tamoura in the Sunlands. At some point, your goal should be not to conquer more territories but to keep order in the territories you do have. And you won’t achieve that by ordering your Inquisitors to drag unmarked civilians out into the streets and brand them with a hot iron.”
Source: The Midnight Star
“Yes, Aviendha had heard stories of this place. Those stories had failed to convey the full truth. One could not describe this place. One had to experience it.
(A Memory Of Light: Wheel of Time Book 14, Robert Jordan)”
“Yes, babies in the womb are human beings, but so what?”
“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”
Source: The Possessed
“Yes, because it’s obviously better if you beat each other to death with rocks instead of stabbing each other like civilized human beings,” Sal muttered, looking away.”
Source: Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook