Y Quotes
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“Yes, ma'am.”
Source: Release Me
“Yes, Ma'am, I do have all the answers! All in this one slim Volume!”
Source: Wealth
“Yes,” Magnus said. “About that. I deeply appreciate you saving my life. I’m very attached to my life. However, if it comes to a choice between your life and mine, Alec, remember I have already lived a very long time.”
Source: The Red Scrolls of Magic
“Yes, make no mistake, racism (like sexism, patriotism, and ethnonationalism) is a form of governance in that it consistently prevents change and maintains the status quo by deflecting attention from the core issues; by pitting people against each other. In doing so, it blinds most people from seeing who the real enemy is. Racism as a form of governance makes people waste all their energy in the wrong places as well as channel all the hatred and bitterness against the wrong populations (Blacks, immigrants, foreigners, and so on).”
“Yes, man can get used to living in the desert, but what feeds his soul is to live in a wooded place, in the forests!”
“Yes, man is much worse than the animal when he does not live like a man.”
Source: The Kreutzer Sonata
“Yes, many bad things happened under colonialism. But why would you only emphasize that? Then you assume that without colonialism far fewer people would have suffered, and that is a figment of the imagination.”
“Yes, many women who had pursued careers and not families experienced loneliness. But the question of whether that loneliness would be ameliorated by marriage -- any marriage -- was one that didn't get attention, even when another executive explained to the paper that some choices about remaining unmarried were made expressly to escape the unhappiness of an earlier generation of married women: "When you think of your mother as helpless, unable to choose her own life, you become determined never to be vulnerable.”
“Yes, memories hurt, but I am still thankful to have them... for the days I lived the way I wanted to live, and with the people I wanted to. No doubt, things have changed and people have left… but I am still living, I am still making memories with new faces, but the same emotions.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Yes, microplastics can come from degrading plastics, no matter what their shape or form.
Micro plastics in the bloodstream would be most likely to come from ingestion; that is either by eating or drinking contaminated products as it then becomes easier to enter the bloodstream.
Other microplastics would enter the body by inhalation when we breathe.
In general, most of the microplastics, in the body, are the PET type (polyethylene terephthalate) which comes from drink bottles, food containers and food wrapping.
So we need to be more careful and stringent. If not, then we run the risk of truly becoming a plastic society.”
“Yes, Mom, I know that I'll never find anybody who loves me with blue hair. That's why I dyed it pink.”
Source: Love and Skate
“Yes, Mom. Wrap it before you tap it. Or was it don’t be silly and wrap your willy?” Suli tapped her chin. “No. I think it was sex is cleaner with a packaged wiener!”
“SULI!” I yelped. “Where are you learning this stuff?”
“Don’t forget to cover your stump before you hump,” Albert interjected.”
Source: Dinosaurs, Doubts & Albert Einswine
“Yes, mood swings occur: while you are driven by music.”
“Yes, most times, true love is found within.”
“Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them! Yes, until there's a war. That's when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone's dish, not only Gable's! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves — Goody, goody! — It's our turn now, to go to the south Sea Island — to make a safari — to be exotic, far-off! — But I'm not patient. I don't want to wait till then. I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!”
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“Yes, my dear," he said reaching his hand to her cheek from where he sat. "But, it only takes one success to erase all the failures. When an opportunity presents itself, the only true failure takes place if one doesn't try at all. My wings weren't ready to fly this time, but, next time, you'll see. They all will see.”
Source: Remnant of the Beast
“Yes, my eyes are closed to your light. I am a beast, a nigger. But I can be saved. You are sham niggers, you, maniacs, fiends, misers. Merchant, you are a nigger; Judge, you are a nigger; General, you are a nigger; Emperor, old itch, you are a nigger: you have drank of the untaxed liquor of Satan’s still.”
Source: A Season in Hell and the Drunken Boat
“Yes, my great villan, my darling god. I will be as sober as a stone carving, just as soon as I can”
Source: The Wicked King
“Yes, my heart can love more than one person. It was interesting to discover that.”
Source: Iterations
“Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers”
“Yes my love, because Eden, I have loved you avidly from the first moment I saw you and I will love you completely with all that I am until the day I die.”
Source: Reckless Magic
“Yes, my mother was on about Byron. But who wants to be like Byron? I despise him.”
Source: The Green Knight
“Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do all virtues and even all vices.”
“Yes, my path was a rocky one, but now I can look down on it from the hill with a smile—that is the ether to fill you.”
Source: A Boy Just Like Me
“Yes, my sister is weird and says crap like en route. I smirk - it's a common facial tic of mine - and turn to her.”
Source: Found
“Yes my sister left. But she didn’t truly come back.”
Source: Mourning Grey: Part Two
“Yes, My Son, man is a piece of wood, that can be used for everything, from the moment he’s born until the moment he dies, he’s always ready to obey, send him there and he goes, tell him to halt and he stops, tell him to turn back and he retreats, whether in peace or in war, man, generally speaking, is the best thing that could have happened to the gods, And the wood from which I’m made, since I’m a man, what use will it be put to, since I’m Your son, You will be the spoon I shall dip into humanity and bring out laden with men who shall believe in the new god I intend to become, Laden with men You will devour, There’s no need for Me to devour those who devour themselves.”
“Yes!" Narissus unslung his bow and grabbed an arrow from his dusty quiver. "The first one who get that bronze, I will like you almost as much as I like me. I might even kiss you, right after I kiss my reflection!"
"Oh my gods!" the nymphs squealed.”
Source: The Mark of Athena
“Yes," Naveen said.
"Yes?" Hope surged through her. "You'll do it?"
"Of course I will, Tiana."
There was something about the way he said her name---the way it rolled off his tongue in that lyrical way he spoke. If she didn't know any better, Tiana would have thought the Shadow Man had taken away her ability to speak. She was transfixed by the subtle hint of longing in Naveen's hazel-colored eyes.
The butterflies returned. But Tiana didn't try to suppress them; she didn't want to. Because this flutter was filled with excitement and yearning and all those feelings she'd tried so hard to ignore this past year when it came to Naveen.
For one brief moment, Tiana allowed herself to just feel.
"Thank you," she finally answered, her voice once again catching in her throat.
"Anything for you," he said.”
Source: Almost There
“Yes. Neil Diamond had literally given her the shirt off his back. Why do these people mean so much to me? Because people inspire people. And over the years, they've all become a part of my DNA. In some way I've been shaped by each and every note I've heard them play. Memories have been painted in my mind with their voices as the frame.”
Source: The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
“Yes. No. Maybe. Elsewhere. Soon.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“Yes no yes no yes no? Red blue? Yes red, no blue? No red, yes no? In out, up down? Do don't, can can't? Choices sit on the shelf life New shoes in a shoe shop. If the in crowd are squeezing into a must-have shoe And the one pair left are too tiny for you Don't feel compelled into choosing them If you're really a size 9, buy that size. While everyone else Hobbles round with sore feet Your choices should feel comfortable Or they aren't your choices at all. Why limp when you can sprint”
“Yes,' Nora said, feeling like a spy about to have her cover blown. 'See you.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Yes, nothing beats books for understanding the world.”
Source: The Art of Thinking Clearly
“Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know — that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.”
Source: Our Town
“Yes of course I know it's all a dream. Isn't everything?”
“Yes of course I was in love with my own youth. Aunt Estelle? Not really. Who is one's first love?”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“Yes, of course," she said, the words rushing out. "You're defending your country." She opened her mouth again, then bit her lip.
"Go on," he said. "Ask what you wanted to ask. I don't bite."
"Well, I suppose I just wondered whether you had... whether you had actually ever killed anyone."
He laughed.
"You know, you do seem much younger than sixteen," he said. "But in answer to your question- yes, I have. More than one." He stopped. There was a new, dark look in his eyes when he continued.
"You can't imagine what it's like. The Libyan heat sticking to you, day in, day out. Nothing but sand and rock for miles. Not a bit of green. All day, crawling in the dust, shooting and being shot at. Men dying around you. You realize, when you see a person die, that there's nothing special about humans. We're just flesh and blood and organs, no different to the pig that have us this bacon.
"So, all day, dust, death, everywhere. I went to sleep each night with dust in my mouth and the smell of blood in my nose. Even here- I'm still finding dust on me. Under my nails, in my hair, caked into the soles of my shoes. And I can still smell the blood. All so that some English girl, sitting pretty in her father's manor house, can ask me if I ever killed anyone.”
Source: Weyward
“Yes, of course we could all use some help. There isn't a person alive without a need. So don't ask the silly question, just figure out how you're going to help and do it!”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Yes. Oh no! I don't subject myself to a leadership that does not break new territories! It is the job of leadership to succeed in landing its limbs on new grounds.”
“Yes, one has read; but this is beyond any book.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“Yes. One hundred percent. You deserve this. You spent years doing what Landon and your parents wanted instead of making yourself happy. So I have to ask you: would going to Disneyland with Tyler make you happy?”
I wish I could say I have to think about it, but my answer is immediate. “Yes.”
Source: Love is a Roller Coaster
“Yes. One of the greatest composers once said that music is a dialog between the musician and God. But God answers very rarely, and only to the truly gifted ones, to those who bear his kiss.”
Source: Rhapsody in Dreams
“Yes, one whose faith is continually stimulated by the upward look gives no ground to the attempted encroachment of despair. No matter how great the trouble or how dark the outlook, a quick lifting of the heart to God in a moment of real actual faith in him will completely alter any situation and turn the darkness of midnight into glorious sunrise.”
“Yes, only when you embrace you fears, when you accept them, do you learn to face them, and that’s how you turn fearless. Happiness is living Life fearlessly, dangerously!”
“Yes, only when you embrace your fears, when you accept them, do you learn to face them, and that’s how you turn fearless. Happiness is living Life fearlessly, dangerously!”
“Yes, orgasm can be an incredible feeling that allows you to fully take advantage of your anatomy and surrender to all the joys that can lead up to your climax. But whether you orgasm at all or you have multiple orgasms during sex, it’s just part of the pleasure-filled journey—not the culmination or result.”
Source: Curvy Girl Sex: 101 Body-Positive Positions to Empower Your Sex Life
“Yes, our Father has a plan, Ciminae,” he said. “But he leaves it up to his children to accept his will. It is their agency. He cannot force his will upon them. If he did, he would cease to be God. They . . . we must choose for ourselves to accept his will with unbreakable faith in our Father. That is when the Father moves us to do his will.” (The Spirit. From Book 2, "Worlds Without End: Aftermath," coming September 1, 2012)”
“Yes, our old age is not going to be sunny orchard drowse. By shutting down the fire curtain, though, I find I can live in the moment; which is good; why yield a moment to regret or envy or worry? Why indeed? (24 December 1940)”
Source: The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Five: 1936-1941
“Yes, overcomplexity can be used to obfuscate,
but oversimplicity makes it impossible to find commonalities,
shared points of entry, experiences,
values, meaning.”