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“Yes, do as you would be done by—and not to the dark man and the white woman alone, but to the sorrel horse and the gray squirrel as well; not to creatures of your own anatomy only, but to all creatures. You cannot go high enough nor low enough nor far enough to find those whose bowed and broken beings will not rise up at the coming of the kindly heart, or whose souls will not shrink and darken at the touch of inhumanity.
Live and let live. Do more. Live and help live. Do to beings below you as you would be done by beings above you. Pity the tortoise, the katydid, the wild-bird, and the ox. Poor, undeveloped, untaught creatures! Into their dim and lowly lives strays of sunshine little enough, though the fell hand of man be never against them. They are our fellow-mortals. They came out of the same mysterious womb of the past, are passing through the same dream, and are destined to the same melancholy end, as we ourselves. Let us be kind and merciful to them.”
Source: Universal Kinship
“Yes. Do pass it on. But not all of it. Don’t pass the pain on.”
“Yes, Dominic because the smartest people fix tenuous relationships by having babies.”
Source: Blackmailing Belle
“Yes, Don had his triggers, but Tracy had the gun.”
Source: Dead Air: The Dead Series: Vol 2
“Yes," Elene said, missing or deciding to miss the sarcasm. "Kylar thinks... Kylar fears that he's a man born to be forever alone. He thinks the last couple of months has been him cheating fate. He's not a man born to be alone, Vi, but some lies take a long time to heal.”
Source: Beyond the Shadows
“Yes, Em, your freckles are perfect. Looks are a funny thing, very peculiar. Never waste any time disliking the ones you have. The right person will think they are the very definition of beautiful.”
Source: The Hope of Azure Springs
“Yes, Emotional Health Matters, Indeed.”
“Yes Ernest, it is pretty to think so.”
Source: The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos
“Yes, even if we make the world a clean world again, we definitely need another liveable world because having a backup is always clever!”
“Yes, ever since that time I began looking upward and awaiting their arrival. Either they will transform my monotonous and boring life completely, or they can take me away with them.
Is there an alternative?”
“Yes, every living being on earth is precious, but humans are more precious than any other living being in the sense that they have the capacity to develop some means to protect the world from a cosmic disaster!”
“Yes! Everyone is right. Since everything exists in perspective, our view depends on our version of reality. The negative and positive exist in the same space. I think that we are created in opportunity. We give each other opportunities. Our opportunity may not be limitless, but we never ran out. People give us the opportunity to love. Oxygen gives us the opportunity to breathe. Water gives us the opportunity to swim. Our home was an opportunity provided by trees. We are surrounded by opportunity; but if the world wanted to have opportunity in one tree then it would be limited. We are limited by looking for opportunity in 1. As long as the 1% of anything holds the opportunity, then opportunity will be limited. I learned to find opportunity within myself and attract opportunity from others.”
Source: True Blue
“Yes, everyone know Bigfoot smell like shit. Please make effort not to point out every time you see Bigfoot. Thank you.”
Source: Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir
“Yes, failure is part of the mix, he says, but it is a means, not an end. If you fail repeatedly, and in the same manner, you're an idiot, not a genius.”
Source: The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
“Yes, fascism is a horrible storm, but the storm prepares his own death by receiving fatal wounds while hitting the things he is destroying!”
“Yes, Father. They have the bravest hearts, the noblest souls, and the shiniest armor in all the world.”
“Shiniest armor?” repeated King Ban.”
“Yes, fine,' he says, annoyed, trying to push my blade away.
I hold it steady, so that the knife cuts in to his skin. He swears and puts a bleeding finger in his mouth. 'What was that for?'
'For fun.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“Yes folks, their gold medal looks the same as everybody elses.”
“Yes, food and technology
can be addicting too.”
Source: Health & Not Screwing It Up
“Yes, forgetting can be a curse, especially as we age. But forgetting is also one of the more important things healthy brains do, almost as important as remembering. Think how quickly the sheer volume and multiplicity of sensory information we receive every waking minute would overwhelm our consciousness if we couldn’t quickly forget a great deal more of it than we remember.”
Source: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
“Yes, from drinking too much beer and generally being a tyrannical egomaniac.”
Source: White Hart
“Yes, getting up is important, but how you get back up—ideally more confident, determined, resilient, stronger—is what truly makes the difference.”
Source: Move Forward Stronger: A Dynamic Framework to Process Change, Loss, and Grief
“Yes, God expects us to forgive others, but it is hardly ever easy. It helps me to think of it like I am facing a load of grimy, strenuous chores. If I don’t forgive, I have to keep at those awful chores. Or I can dump the load at God’s feet and say, “You deal with it; I’m going out to play.” Forgiveness frees me from all the tiring work of staying hurt and angry.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Yes, God has given us desire. But we are the ones that stoke it. What sort of kindling will we be using to make our fire?”
“Yes good one- hold on tight- to ideas. At times, since we are talking so much about birds and all things avian, these flighty things do have a tendency to spread their gossamer wings and take flight. So you haven’t even begun to see it and it disappears from your view. At times you don’t even know how many of these frisky things you thought of and they instantly frolicked their way into some wonderland. There they remain latent. Sometimes for mere moments, sometimes days, sometimes months and years. And then in a flash. They come back without warning, at times stealthily, in our most unguarded moments- in bed, polishing shoes, rolling out a roti, driving or pooping and you are not prepared. They settle tentatively on your sleepy eyes for a second and before you know it, fly past you in a flash again, good for you if you hold them then and there, for if you think you will sit yourself down one day with the wrong end of the pen in your mouth, or the laptop loaded with the works, or the dream paints on the palette, to capture what you saw in your mind’s stratosphere- you just blink and find it’s just a blankness you see, no matter how hard you try, a blankness that stares with a baffling obduracy. At times you even forget that you forgot. The thought had yet not entered your conscious mind- it was just hovering between the sleeping world and the awake, and just falls off the edge. Never makes it. Yes they are flighty things.” She rounded it with a peal of laughter, amused with the little story she had concocted.”
Source: In The Land of The Lovers
“Yes, goodbye was inevitable for two people as different as them. He had always wanted to spread his wings and fly away from home; she was content with settling down roots.”
Source: Afraid to Fall
“Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.”
“Yes, greed is the worst vice. To escape its grip one must cultivate that self-control which is the scaffolding of every virtue. With self-control come patience, moderation, gentleness and generosity. Some people might take self-control for weakness but it is really tolerance, openness to all experience, a non-judgmental acceptance of all that life may send our way. A person does not need a forest ashram if they can exercise such self-control while engaged fully in the daily round.”
Source: Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling
“Yes, happiness is the proof that time can accommodate eternity”
“Yes, Harry, you can love, said Dumbledore, who looked as though he knew perfectly well what Harry had just refrained from saying. Which, given everything that has happened to you, is a great and remarkable thing.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Yes. Have…have you ever been shot?”
“Yep, more than once. But I was never shot by the same guy twice. If you know what I mean.”
Source: The Deathbed Confessions
“Yes, he gives people an opportunity to be happy around him, but make no mistake, he is not weak. Happiness blooms in his wake. Much as he gifts others with joy, beneath the laughter lay unyielding wisdom.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“Yes, he is a fluent and forward young man, with a great deal of Indian Pride. If only his heart were subdued by Divine grace, he might be exceedingly useful to his people.”
Source: Red Clay, Running Waters
“Yes, he knew it was crazy to be this obsessed over an encounter that had taken up maybe sixty seconds of his life. (Or had it been an hour and sixty seconds?) But what an encounter. His fingers still felt the bones and flesh through her sweater, his tongue still tasted her mysterious bitter-greens mouth, her voice still haunted him with that whispered 'Help me.”
Source: The Goblins of Bellwater
“Yes, he knew that the god Loki had come out of the flames and possessed him for a while (as Fafhrd had perhaps once been possessed by the god Issek back in Lankhmar) and spoken through his lips the sort of arguments that are so convincing when voiced by a god or delivered in time of war or comparable crisis—and so empty when proclaimed by a mere mortal on any ordinary occasion.”
Source: Swords and Ice Magic
“Yes, he looks like someone who was designed to be popular and successful, but he also looks like someone who was made to wear grief. He wears it well.”
“Yes," he replied. "We are --- how do you say on Midgard -- between a hard place and tree.”
Source: Struck
“Yes, he’s my psychiatrist,” I say quietly as I stare out at the road. I can’t meet his eyes right now. I don’t want to see judgment there.
“And why are you seeing a psychiatrist?”
“My unruly sex drive?”
“Irish...” the way he says my nickname makes me glance in time to catch him lift in his seat and tug at his jeans slightly, as if to make himself more comfortable.
“Tell me.”
“Yes," he said, shrugging. "Maybe you didn't understand when I said I"d love you forever, but I meant I'd love you forever. There were no qualifiers or addendums to that vow, nothing that would void it out based on your actions." His smile lit up the night. "To make sure you're clear on this, let me repeat myself. I'll love you forever, Bryn Dawson, no matter how determined you might be to screw it up."
"No conditions?" I asked. "Not even (spoiler omitted)
He shook his head. "I think that's why they call it unconditional.”
Source: Fallen Eden
“Yes!" He says. "Fear is an excellent motivator. I find that it really brings out the true ingenuity of a creature.”
Source: Four Kings
“Yes, he scorned his family’s decadent ways, but perhaps that wasn’t so much about the money per se, but rather the wastefulness of it; the lack of energy and drive it represented, as if the Ransomes were—like that postmodern throng of the famous-for-being-famous set—some odd collection of spoiled Emperor-brats walking a red carpet without any discernible talent to clothe them. The things the Ransomes—and their once-large fortune—could have accomplished . . . they could have changed the world, or at least impacted it in positive ways.”
Source: A Bird Without Wings
“Yes! He stole my dog! And he almost killed us! This is the guy you're protecting! This is teh guy you think is going to save the world by turning you into lightbulbs! Can't you see he's got you totally brainwashed?!”
Source: Generation Why
“Yes, he wanted to tell Krystof, it will hurt. Even if you don't get sick like them. It will hurt.”
“Yes, he was a good man, but he was also a black man. And when you’re black, being good isn’t always enough.”
“No, sweetheart, it isn’t. A black man walks a different line, a tightrope. Sometimes that line is hard to see. That seems to be what happened here.”
Source: Betrayal In Black
“Yes," he whispered harshly, "I am afraid. But I will defeat you, all the same. It is you who cannot - will not be allowed to prevail. I swear this by the living Name of the One.”
Source: Gryphon's Heir
“Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it." "Evvy and I have an understanding." She grabbed the teakettle and poured hot water into the mug. "She tells me the truth, and I don't hang her in the first well we come to. It's a solution that works tolerably well for both of us.”
“Yes, her mind had been sliced, but she had still known her Master. She was unable to control her actions, but her emotions had remained her own. Her Master-the person she was supposed to be able to trust above all others in the galaxy-had killed her. That was the last thing she'd known before she died.”
Source: Master and Apprentice
“Yes here I am doing what I do best; and that's taking a selfie. People make fun of me but the reality is if I didn't take them you would never see me as I want to be seen. I'm a difficult subject and my greatest fear is dying and someone finding my phone and the hundreds upon hundreds of selfies.”
“Yes, here, this was his domain now, because they were in a dream and Gideon was a dreamer. He was an optimist, an idiot prince. He saw the possibility of doom and said not today, fucker!, flipping off the whims of fate while diving backward into hell.”
Source: The Atlas Paradox
“Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes.”