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“Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry, so arid, so hard; this rock which thou hast struck a second time, will not resist thee any longer, for out of it there now gushes healthful waters in abundance. The selfsame voice of God which overturns the mountains, thunders, lightens, and divides the heaven above, now commands the clouds to pour forth showers of blessings, changing the desert of his soul into a field producing a hundredfold; that voice I hear.”
“Yes, Hackney has got more expensive, but so has rest of London”
“Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.”
“Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is.”
“Yes, Harry Potter!” said Dobby at once, his great eyes shining with excitement. “And if Dobby does it wrong, Dobby will throw himself off the topmost tower, Harry Potter!” “There won’t be any need for that,” said Harry hastily.”
“Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I understood more than you did.”
“Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!”
Source: The Winning of the West: An Account of the Exploration and Settlement of Our Country from the Alleghanies to the Pacific
“Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father.”
“Yes, he is a man, so genetically he's engineered to be dense about many things, but he's not stupid.”
Source: Hard Day's Knight
“Yes, he is here in this open field, in sunlight, among the few young trees set out to modify the bare facts-- he's here, but only because we are here. When we go, he goes with us to be your hands that never do violence, your eyes that wonder, your lives that daily praise life by living it, by laughter. He is never alone here, never cold in the field of graves.”
Source: Poems 1968-1972
“Yes, he is not unused to playing in midfield, but at the same time he's not used to playing there either.”
“Yes, He is ris'n who is the First and Last;
Who was and is; who liveth and was dead;
Beyond the reach of death He now has pass 'd,
Of the one glorious Church the glorious Head.”
Source: Hymns of faith and hope
“Yes, he would be gone, but she knew now what it meant to love. She might not know what it meant to be loved, but loving was almost as good.”
“Yes, he would have done that for Tessa - died to keep the ones she needed beside her - and so would Jem have done that for him or for Tessa, and so would Tessa, he thought, do that for both of them. It was a near incomprehensible tangle, the three of them, but there was one certainty, and that was that there was no lack of love between them.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.”
Source: The Revolt of the Oyster
“Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks.”
“Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merelyflowers.”
“Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.”
“Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving. Who wanted only to belong to herself.”
“Yes, he’s a good boy. Never been in trouble at school and he’s on the honor roll. Captain of the football team. All-around psycho serial killer who hides bodies in the fridge whenever his parents go out of town. (Nick) I also eat babies for breakfast and torture small animals for fun. My therapist says I’m making real progress though. (Caleb)”
“Yes, he’s like a rash for which there’s no cure. It only goes away for a bit before returning unexpectedly to ruin every pleasurable experience. He should have been named Herpes rather than ZT. Or maybe just Herpes Z, since he’s a very special irritant. (Arik)”
Source: The Dream-Hunter
“Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?”
Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed
“Yes, Horus said. I remember this place. It’s El Paso, I told him. Unless you went out for Mexican Food, you’ve never been here.”
“Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the pros and the cons it has, because we have ten centuries of more good experiences than bad ones.”
“Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis on midge materials as well as enough fur and feathers to whip out a half dozen of virtually every conceivable dry pattern nature can throw at me. I have used it once, in 1993.”
“Yes, I adore the fact that girls like me.”
“Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did.”
“Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.”
“Yes, I always say that were a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.”
“Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.”
“Yes, I am a good singer.”
“Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.”
“Yes, I am a narcissist. The best, too.”
“Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.”
“Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim of fate.”
Source: Jimmy Buffett, Guitar Anthology Series: Authentic Guitar TAB Edition
“Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.”
“Yes, I am a terrorist and I am proud of it. And I support terrorism so long as it was against the United States Government and against Israel, because you are more than terrorists; you are the one who invented terrorism and using it every day. You are butchers, liars and hypocrites.”
“Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.”
“Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.”
“Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.”
“Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.”
“Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.”
“Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.”
“Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.”
“Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. Its a nice feeling.”
“Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.”
“Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.”
Source: De Kooning: paintings, 1960-1980
“Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they're not here and haven't been for years, so I'm not really Irish or Indian. I am a blank sky, a human solar eclipse.”
Source: Flight: A Novel