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“Yes sir, yes madam, I entreat you, get out of those motorized wheelchairs, get off your foam rubber backsides, stand up straight like men! like women! like human beings! and walk-walk-WALK upon our sweet and blessed land!”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.”
Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
“Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.”
“Yes, Sole Mio, we have a long life together, a long time for you to teach me how to love and for me to keep learning, and loving you endlessly.”
Source: Sunlight in His Abyss: A Dark Mafia Romance
“Yes, some mistakes leave their mark, like the infidelity stains in the backseat. But in time they do fade.”
Source: Better to be able to love than to be loveable
“Yes, some people are definitely much more human than others! And some people are definitely much less human than others!”
“Yes, some people have a calling. But everybody has a life. You are not required to choose your path once, long ago, and never deviate from it again. Maybe those who live that way are lucky. But then again, maybe not. Maybe it is better to try many things, so that when you choose, you know you chose well.”
Source: Just One More Night
“Yes some people say ignorant things about autism but silencing them solves nothing. They need to be educated. That's how things change.”
“Yes, South”
“Yes, Staten Island is the most Italian county in all of the United States, beating out even Meatball, Indiana. But the beauty of Staten Island is that anyone who lives there long enough, regardless of ethnicity, just becomes Italian.”
Source: A Very Punchable Face
“Yes, still I remember that you always wait for me with love in eyes but when I arrive you got angry on me and I know that was totally a drama.”
“Yes, suddenly I saw it clearly: most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in redressibility (of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs). Both are false faiths. In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed. The task of obtaining redress (by vengeance or by forgiveness) will be taken over by forgetting. No one will redress the wrongs that have been done, but all wrongs will be forgotten.”
Source: The Joke
“Yes, surprising, isn’t it?” he said. . . . “You’d think everyone would ask for what they want and there’d be hundreds of tailors catering to specification. But most people don’t know what they want.”
Source: The Secret of Lost Things
“Yes, take your times seriously. Yes, know that you are judged by the terrible sins of your times. Yes, you do well to faint with fear and foreboding at what is coming on the world. And yet rejoice. Rejoice. The Lord is at hand. Have no anxiety. Pray.”
Source: Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons
“Yes, @terrencehoward might also be correct in his 1x1=2.
Terrence Howard might be correct in his Mathematical equation of 1x1=2.
If you have 1 poster, and you use a printer to make a copy of it (thus, multiplying it) ...dont you now have 2 of the same thing?
#mittaxinindlu”
“Yes! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it... There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes. I can't afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great deal of those feelings for my every-day fellow-men, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude, whose faces I know, whose hands I touch, for whom I have to make way with kindly courtesy.”
Source: Adam Bede
“Yes. THANK YOU. And say hello to Judas Iscariot.”
Source: Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“Yes that’s me. Shining light on the darkness, exposing injustice, unafraid, politically incorrect, unapologetically opinionated. Give me truth not lies. News not propaganda!”
“Yes. That’s right. Don’t be so judgy. I am politely interacting with
the hermeneutics-of-suspicion minds of the Carcosa dwellers, embedding the superstructure of the blatherings with base corruptions, presenting forms concealing reality, floottering reflexes and
echoes of other determining forces that do fundamental work in
manifesting any real social change.
And the susceptible dwellers are always down for discussion,
which I appreciate to no end.
And the ideology of the nineteenth coming from minds like Nietzsche, Comte, Kant, Marx, and Hegel was analyzed in the twentieth century by minds like James, Freud, and Jung, and then that
analysis of nineteenth century ideology was itself critiqued in the
twenty-first century, the age of hyperprofilicity, and that critique
of the analysis of nineteenth century ideology metamorphosed into
a new type of cluster of ideologies and then into a steadfast adherence of the pseudoscientific theory of the critique of the analysis.”
Source: Schlemiel Gaucho: An Improv Comedy Magick Grimoire
“Yes, that's right, if humanity suddenly disappeared, there would be an incredible silence on Earth!”
“Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit."
"We did say it was still only a dream."
"And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change.”
Source: Master Harold...and the Boys
“Yes, that’s what I meant to say. If this seems a bit circular to you, well, it is, but it has deep meaning.”
“Yes. That's why it's so hard to look in a mirror. You are looking at yourself, but you don't recognize yourself. It's a shock. The person you see is older, and heavier, and has wrinkles. But you don't feel that way inside, and it's hard to believe that's how you really look now, how other people see you.”
Source: Going All the Way
“Yes, the brain creates consciousness to generate thought, but because consciousness develops one’s awareness and perception, that would mean that the mind dominates the brain, because, by manipulating a person’s awareness and perception, it does not simply generate thought like the brain does, but instead, it controls thought.”
Source: The Reformation
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Yes, the Grand March was coming to an end, but was that any reason for Franz to betray it? Wasn't his own life coming to an end as well? Who was he to jeer at the exhibitionism of the people accompanying the courageous doctors to the border? What could they all do but put on a show? Had they any choice?
Franz was right. I can't help thinking about the editor in Prague who organized the petition for the amnesty of political prisoners. He knew perfectly well that his petition would not help the prisoners. His true goal was not to free the prisoners; it was to show that people without fear still exist. That, too, was playacting. But he had no other possibility. His choice was not between playacting and action. His choice was between playacting and no action at all. There are situations in which people are condemned to playact. Their struggle with mute power (the mute power across the river, a police transmogrified into mute microphones in the wall) is the struggle of a theater company that has attacked an army.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Yes the grass is greener, on the other side, but we are the dreamers who have chosen the sky.”
“Yes, the hermitage is underground--miles beneath the surface of Antarctica. And yes, Ike refers to it as unten--literally 'under' or 'below.' But, hello, it's 'hyperborean'--of or relating to the arctic, frigid, very cold. The opposite of infernally hot. Well, what if it's WAY underground down near the inner core of the earth, where it's like 10,000 degrees? Well, what if it's up your ass where it's like 10,000,000 degrees? Well, what if you're a cocksucking dwarf racist retard midget dickwad? Well, what if you're a fucking scatological-bakery urinal-cake-boss motherfucking fist-fucked cow-pie anal-fissureman motherfucker?”
Source: The Sugar Frosted Nutsack
“Yes, the human race is a small species in an infinite universe filled with many other planets and many other things, but though small; this race is bearer of very great and big things: Destiny, Virtue, Hope, Love... and that's what makes this species different. That's what makes this species very shiny and very visible and very important, in a whole, whole, big, big, vast, expanding universe!”
“Yes, the Illuminati have always sought a New World Order. Humanity cries out for it. Isn’t it time to abolish the old, failed ways that have enslaved so many billions? The Illuminati have incurred the enmity of all those who prosper from the Old World Order: the rich, privileged elites, the religious leaders who deceive their flocks (of sheep), and the paranoid, ill educated idiots (all the brainwashed anti-New World Order conspiracy theory nuts who don’t see that the New World Order is their only hope of liberation).”
Source: The Hidden Masters
“Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews.”
“Yes, the past is a foreign country," I said, "but some of us are full-fledged citizens, others occasional tourists, and some floating itinerants, itching to get out yet always aching to return."
"There's a life that takes place in ordinary time," I said, "and another that bursts in but just as suddenly fizzles out. And then there's the life we may never reach but that could so easily be ours if only we knew how to find it. It doesn't necessarily happen on our planet, but is just as real as the one we live by—call it our 'star life.' Nietzsche wrote that estranged friends may become declared enemies but in some mysterious way continue to remain friends, though on a totally different sphere. He called these 'star friendships.”
Source: Enigma Variations
“Yes, the people around us can be insensitive, narcissistic, toxic, and sometimes even abusive, but it is up to us to take that energy on or let it flow through us. No one is responsible for taking away our happiness but us.”
Source: Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing
“Yes the realities of life so cold,
So cowardly, so ready to betray,
So stinted in the measure of their grace
As we pronounce them, doing them much wrong,
Have been to me more bountiful than hope,
Less timid than desire—but that is passed.”
Source: The Recluse
“Yes, the revolution was coming for them, too. How many revolutions would they have to live through during the never-ending historicity of their goddamned lives?”
Source: Our Country Friends
“Yes! The rosy fingers of dawn had finally slipped through the fog and gently pulled it apart, separating the tendrils, weakening it.
Wendy watched in fascination. She almost never saw the sunrise except in winter and that was through her window, under the gray sprawl of London Town. Nothing like this. As the sea lightened and the sky began to clear, the two elements resolved themselves into colors unlike anything she was used to: brilliant emerald and deep aquamarine, pellucid azure and shining lapis. It was so storybook perfect she wouldn't have been surprised at all if the sun came out with a great smiley face drawn on it.”
Source: Straight On Till Morning
“Yes, the same God who created all the universes created you as a one-of-a-kind. He knows you and loves you and commands you to love yourself.”
Source: Aligned With Christ
“Yes the sex scenes are explicit but we all love the dirty bits!”
“Yes, the shadow of doom,' said Beregond. 'I fear that Minas Tirith shall fall. Night comes. The very warmth of my blood seems stolen away.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings
“Yes, the Springs needed you. Many a star was waiting
for your eyes only. A wave swelled toward you
out of the past, or as you walked by the open window
a violin inside surrendered itself
to pure passion. All that was your charge.
But were you strong enough? Weren't you always distracted
by expectation, as though each such moment
presaged a beloved's coming? (But where would you keep her,
with all those big strange thoughts in you
going and coming and sometimes staying all night?)”
Source: Duino Elegies
“Yes, the sweat will smell bad, but success has a beautiful scent, entirely different from the sweat. Do your due diligence. Do not relent. One day, you will reap the rewards of your resilience.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.”
“Yes, the wild is risky,
Yes, it’s cold and bare—
But better to stumble
than gasp for air.”
Source: Collywobbles
“Yes, the wind came up--" Mrs. Sharpe began. She paused.
"And changed us all," Petra said softly.”
Source: The Calder Game
“Yes, the world has been different ever since Darwin. But no less exciting, instructing, or uplifting; for if we cannot find purpose in nature, we will have to define it for ourselves.”
Source: Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
“Yes, the world is complex, increasingly so. In all of time, it has not changed in its constant change, you see.
In your own life, you are not a little girl any more. That’s it. You have grown in your parents’ love and tender care for so long, and your expectation is that family should be the best, that it should be perfect and loving, and that each family member should be wonderful and attentive to each other’s needs.
This is not realistic.
Kathryn, stop taking the good things for granted, be acceptable to change, and be flexible to life outcomes. Sometimes it is not as bad as you think.
Trust your fate and your family are in God’s hands, okay?”
Source: Hope, Strength and Courage: With Stories in Medicine Training and the Atypical Sibling Rivalry
“Yes, the world is full of unspeakable cruelty. But the answer wasn't to never feel hope, or bliss, or love-but to savor every fleeting, precious second of those feelings when they came.”
Source: Things You Save in a Fire
“Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe: 'Schade, daß die Natur nur einen Menschen aus dir schuf; Denn zum würdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.'”
Source: The Sign of Four
“Yes, there are many ways to collect content, but in my experience - the best and most authentic content is one which you speak when you are in moments of flow. You can use any recording device. Do not let the lack of understanding technology slow you down. Ask someone how to turn the damn thing on and record yourself. Remember, you are on a mission to complete the levels within and win a better life for yourself and your family. You owe it to them to overcome these obstacles and to see your way through, not to create excuses.”
Source: Book Power: A Platform for Writing, Branding, Positioning & Publishing
“Yes, there are plenty of politicians who are liars, there is no doubt about this! But some of them are not only liars but also serial killers because they deliberately send people to the wars!”