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“Yes, there are times when the world turns upside down, logic becomes subject to the muse of reckless interpretation, truth becomes the bed-child of selfish goals, and people are off on a wild course that bludgeons everyone they once loved or anyone who gets in the way of what they now purport to love.”
Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey
“Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.”
“Yes, there had been increasing distance between you and me--there always is between people who have been friends from a young age as each grows into her own self, which might be a self that neither anticipated on those warm summer nights when they had pledged their undying friendship to one another, staring up at millions of stars, each representing a possible future.”
Source: The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water
“Yes, there is a better life, there is always a better life! But who will find that better life? Of course, only those who seek will find! Seek and you will find!”
“Yes, there is a conspiracy, indeed there are a great number of conspiracies, all tripping each other up... The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theories is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in the conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy, or the grey aliens, or the twelve-foot reptiloids from another dimension that are in control, the truth is far more frightening; no-one is in control, the world is rudderless.”
“Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.”
“Yes, there is a type of love that never dies, that never grows old or weary. It is selfless and unconditional. It is the love of goodly parents.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Yes, there is joy, fulfilment and companionship- but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.”
Source: Molloy / Malone Dies / The Unnamable
“Yes, there is relief, too! I'm going to tell you what - it's the earth, your own plot of land that you've cleared by the strength of your arms, with your own fruit trees around it and your own stock in the pasture, everything you need right there - with your own freedom bounded by nothing but the weather, good or bad, rain or drought.”
Source: Masters of the Dew
“Yes, there is something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds me how lonely I am and how far the two of us are. Not long ago I thought we could swallow all the stars, you and me. Now I look at the night, and it looks cold, you took the warmth of the sky with you and left only the emptiness for me to fall and fade.”
“Yes, there is something distinctive and recognizable in English civilization. It is somehow bound up with solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and winding roads, green fields and red pillar-boxes.”
Source: The Lion and The Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
“Yes, there's a lot of sand here. Beebee-Ate? Okay. Hello, Beebee-Ate. My name is Rey. No, just Rey.”
Source: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
“Yes, there’s a natural progression to life, but nothing is ever permanent. As much as we heal and advance our lives, there will always be change, loss, gain, and greater learning.”
“Yes, there’s a problem. I’m not that difficult to live with; you don’t need to throw yourself off the building!”
Source: Elves of Fate: Denial
“Yes, there's plenty of fish in the sea, but be gifted with a rare catch: that one which lives with "forever faithfulness." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You”
“Yes, there's probably a ton of madness in those ambitions, but what are we if not mad beings? What are humans without madness? As i understand, madness is nothing more than a surge/bolt of criativity without the wires of rationality intertwined.
An idea is an surge of creativity tangled with rationality, but when such element is lost, all there is left is creativity on it's own, lost in threads of thoughts in the ship we call mind, with the rationality being the roles and the nails that keep it all together, and with this balance we sail.”
“Yes, there's sense in that. But the suddenly rich are on a level with any of us nowadays. Money buys position at once. I don't say that it isn't all right. The world generally knows what it's about, and knows how to drive a bargain. I dare say that it makes the new rich pay too much. But there's no doubt but money is to the fore now. It is the romance, the poetry of our age. It's the thing that chiefly strikes the imagination. The Englishmen who come here are more curious about the great new millionaires than about anyone else, and they respect them more. It's all very well. I don't complain of it.”
Source: The Rise of Silas Lapham
“Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand. But things weren’t entirely black—not yet. When you’re young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Tuesday you’re laughing again.”
Source: The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
“Yes there were 15 to 20 terrorists. We managed to capture both of them!”
“Yes there were giants in the Earth it was real all of it. All of the stories they told you when you were a child they were all true. Imagine that. Imagine if adulthood is the fairy tale and childhood is the reality. Imagine giants’ graves all over the land and the motorways roaring past them and it is the motorways which are the romantic lies.”
Source: Beast
“Yes, there will be winter, there will be cold, there will be snowstorms, but then there will be spring again...”
“Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.”
“Yes, they are hounding me.”
Source: The Trial
“Yes; they can take everything. How foolish of Stephen Candy and his tribe not to be born of the class of landlords! The inconvenience of having no foothold on the earth’s surface is so manifest.”
Source: The Nether World
“Yes, they got along and maybe he was attracted to her. It was within the realm of possibility.
And if he propositioned her, she'd sleep with him.
She couldn't imagine him wanting more than that, but maybe he'd want to have some fun, and she trusted him to treat her well.
Yep, she could have a little more fun before she tried to have a real relationship.
She recalled seeing him with wet hair yesterday, and she pictured him wearing just a towel slung low on his hips, like in that one scene in That Kind of Wedding. And then he'd go to her. She'd be naked in a four-poster-bed----this was her imagination, after all----and he'd slip under the covers and slide his hand between her legs...
No, she had to stop fantasizing before she got carried away. She'd leave that for later, for when she was in bed with one of her trusty toys.”
Source: Donut Fall in Love
“Yes, they have all done some good work that has left our world a safer place today. But we need a more direct strategy that can endure for as long as the threat persists without hurting the sovereignty of nations and human rights of the same people it seeks to protect.”
Source: How to Terrorize Terrorism: a more effective answer to global terrorism
“Yes, they think we're dumb. They call us the "common people." But I've been sitting here listening and looking and trying to understand what's so common about us. I think they're guilty of a gross mis-statement of fact-we are the uncommon people-”
Source: Invisible Man
“Yes, things endure, while the living lapse.”
Source: The Sea
“Yes, things may have been falling apart, but now it is Thanksgiving time, a time to appreciate the great things the Lord has done.”
Source: The Gift of Thanksgiving
“Yes, think outside the box. And for that matter twist the box around and make it a whole new shape.”
“Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature that will take the blame. It is your moral code that’s through, this time. Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course. And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality—you who have never known any—but to discover it.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the ultimate in human happiness.”
Source: Bel-Ami
“Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:—
Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning of things.”
Source: The Keeper of Sheep
“Yes. This. It was just what she needed, because here, held by him like this, her guilt, her regret, her fears . . . all of it gave way to this heady, languid sensation of being desired and she didn’t want it to stop.
Any of it.”
“Yes, this... Urcheon... speaks the truth. Roegner did swear to give him that which he did not expect. It looks as if our lamented king was an oaf as far as a woman's affairs are concerned, and couldn't be trusted to count to nine. He confessed the truth on his death-bed, because he knew what I'd do to him if he'd admitted it earlier. He knew what a mother, whose child is disposed of so recklessly, is capable of.”
Source: The Last Wish
“Yes, this was a haunted place. He had read
about certain materials absorbing the sounds of their surroundings like divots in a vinyl recording, and now, as the sun started to dip below the horizon, this concept chilled him more than the creeping cold. Put a needle to the mortar of these walls and listen to the screams. His own would be among them.”
Source: The Fallen Boys
“Yes, this was the evening hour when—how long ago it seemed!—I always felt so well content with life. Then, what awaited me was a night of easy, dreamless sleep. This was the same hour, but with a difference; I was returning to a cell, and what awaited me was a night haunted by forebodings of the coming day. And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prisons as to innocent, untroubled sleep.”
Source: The Stranger
“Yes. This was worth seeing. A skeleton of a wall, graceful arches, pointed spires, and God's creation, all together.”
Source: The Lost Heiress
“Yes, those were the things we took for granted.”
Source: Jezero
“Yes. Time flies. Aspirationally, the vibration within matches the pace.”
“Yes, to answer your question, it’s like how your father lifted you onto his shoulders to see what you could not, to see what he saw—through his eyes. If he would’ve lifted you even higher, into the heights of his heart, and told you what I’ve told you about your grandmother, you could’ve seen with his eyes even more clearly. Time is different here in many ways, but the slowness is to help you see with my eyes, to lift you up so you can see what you otherwise could not. You mentioned food; there is no urgency here to eat or earn money or sleep. For fear of losing those things, many have rushed through life and overlooked all that I have wanted them to see. There is a greater force than fear here that drives our time, and it is unconcerned with twists and turns in the road, pit stops, and even turning around here and there to glimpse what we’ve missed. What many see as delays are life’s greatest delights to me.”
Source: Dear to Saturn
“Yes to fingerfucking the dialectic! Or to using the dialectic as a method of fingerfucking the binary!”
Source: Our Deep Gossip: Conversations with Gay Writers on Poetry and Desire
“Yes to market economy, no to market society.”
“Yes to oysters swollen through butter. Yes to thighs cooled on glass, my hand a hot knife between. Yes to prosciutto, it's salt slick; to avocados bursting, ripe. Our teeth clanged. I tasted blood and chocolate. Yes to the fatthicksweet of it, to cream, to froth that rises, to the crunched lace of the ear and the tender behind the knee, to that join at the legs where she softened, dimpled, begged me to bite.”
Source: Land of Milk and Honey
“Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.”
“Yes, today is the day to power up and achieve your AICI CIC certification in record time.”
Source: Cindy Ann Peterson's AICI CIC Accelerator (℠): Peterson's Power Prep Primer
“Yes, Trina. Really, I'll show up to help you. Really, I'll bring a friend. Really, I'm not a total dick. I just play one on TV.”
Source: Playing the Player
“Yes, Troy, I’m tired. And do you want to know why?” She raised her brows, cocking her head on an angle to give him a full dose of attitude. “Cause I was riding Blake all night long.”
Source: Passionate Addiction
“Yes. Unfortunately, I've become so irrevocably obsessed with the little muse that I'm surviving on the mere hope of being able to see her.
Desperate much? Abso-fucking-lutely.”
Source: God of Ruin