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“Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is--if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing.”
Source: Summer Crossing: A Novel
“Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.”
“Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.”
“Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.”
“Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.”
“Yes?" said Clary, her voiced sharply edged. "Since I found out what? That he's a killer transvestite who molests cats?" "No wonder that cat of his hates everyone.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“Yes?" she asked, eyeing me guardedly. I struck out a hand and said "Shake." Arra stared at the hand, then into my unfocused eyes. "One good fight doesn't make you a warrior," she said. "Shake!" I repeated angrily. "And if I don't?" she asked. "I'll get back up on the bars and fight you till you do," I growled. Arra studied me at length, then nodded and took my hand. "Power to you, Darren Shan," she said gruffly. "Power," I repeated weakly, then fainted into her arms and knew no more till I came to in my hammock the next night.”
“Yes?' Joe Solomon sounded like someone with far better things to do. 'Is there any homework?' she asked, and the class turned instantly from shocked to irritated. (Never ask that question in a room full of girls who are all black belts in karate) 'Yes,' Solomon said, holding the door in the universal signal for get out. 'Notice things.”
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Are you sure?’ ‘No, I’m not.’ ‘What do you write?’ ‘Short stories mostly. And I’m halfway through a novel.’ ‘A novel, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘What’s the name of it?’ ‘”The Leaky Faucet of My Doom.”‘ ‘Oh, I like that. What’s it about?’ ‘Everything.’ ‘Everything? You mean, for instance, it’s about cancer?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘How about my wife?’ ‘She’s in there too.”
“Yeshua’s (Jesus’) very life and ministry demonstrate the mutual and respectful existence of divinity and humanity within each person.”
Source: Who Told You That You Were Naked?
“Yeshua Said: When you love some, but do not love some others it isn’t love: it is a collection of lower emotions, feelings and desires combined, disguised and misinterpreted as love. True love cannot help itself, it runs throughout, it cannot have exclusions; and even that it does not like, does not support: that which opposes it and tries to cause it pain, it loves nevertheless. Love is not a faucet to be turned on or off and directed in a chosen way; it is a tidal wave that sweeps indiscriminately throughout everything.”
Source: Yeshua Unveiled Books of Wisdom Prepare E-Book: Master Yeshua Heavenly Revelations for The Troubled Times
“Yess, Exccellenccy. Larsst iss my name.”
Source: The Perennial Migration
“Yessir, apparently while the children of the nation were busy doing in the Other Country what they'd never dare do in the Country Country, tholukuthi the Savior of the Nation too was busy doing what could only be done in the Country Country and not in the Other Country.”
Source: Glory
“Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.”
Source: In Spirit & Truth
“Yessir, this here is trouble just looking for a place to happen. ~ Travis McLean”
Source: K9 Mine
“Yesterday a child came out to wonder
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star”
“Yesterday a girl asked me to take her to a place she has never been to.
She is in 'sisterzone' now.”
“Yesterday all five living presidents gathered for the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library in Dallas. Well, six living presidents if you count Hillary in 2016.”
“Yesterday Allison bought me nail polish in the annoying shade of mauve. How can anyone look at me and think mauve?”
Source: Dare You To
“Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Yesterday belongs to the dead. Tomorrow belongs to the living.”
“Yesterday does not equal tomorrow. Forget the past and move towards your goals.”
“Yesterday doesn't even look the same, and the only thing more beautiful than today is tomorrow.”
“Yesterday during a speech on national security, Jeb Bush mispronounced Boko Haram and got confused between Iran and Iraq. When reached for comment, his brother George W. said, 'He sure sounds presidentiary to me.'”
“Yesterday ended last night.”
Source: The 15 laws of growth
“Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.”
Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living
“Yesterday evening I received a call that a person had located a body and the investigators from SDSD Homicide Division described our beloved mother, Sally Estabrook. Thank you all for your prayers, your good thoughts, and positive vibes.”
“Yesterday for contemplation, today for action.”
“Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her hair flew back like an annunciatory angel, and I saw she was the only dancer on the street.”
“Yesterday Gary Condit spent the whole day attending an agricultural meeting. Boy, that's when you know a congressman's in real trouble: when he spends the whole day actually working.”
“Yesterday has gone, never to return. It is the past and over; learn from its mistakes and look to the future with optimism.”
“Yesterday he told me he thought I would have to pretend to be weak, but he was wrong. I am weak already. I brace myself against the wall and press my forehead to my hands. It’s difficult to take deep breaths, so I take short, shallow ones. I can’t let this happen. They attacked me to make me feel weak. I can pretend they succeeded to protect myself, but I can’t let it become true.”
“Yesterday I accidentally hit a little kid with my car. It wasn't serious — nobody saw me.”
“Yesterday I asked a five-year-old child who Jesus was. You know what he replied? A
statue.”
Source: Q
“Yesterday, I asked a robot, Gumball I think, do you know Murphy’s law of gravitation? It answered, ‘No, sir, I know only Newton’s and Einstein’s laws of gravitation; I don’t know Murphy’s law.’ I replied, ‘Eh, Gumball, the slice always falls with the buttered side to the floor. That’s Murphy’s law.’” Everyone burst into laughter.”
Source: Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan
“Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores today i cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar.”
“Yesterday I cut an orchid, for my buttonhole.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.”
“Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.”
Source: Love Poems
“Yesterday I finally realized that all the things I thought were wrong about you were actually the things I enjoyed most. I don't give a damn what you do, so long as it pleases you. Run barefoot on the front lawn. Eat pudding with your fingers. Tell me to go to hell as often as you like. I want you just as you are.”
Source: It Happened One Autumn
“Yesterday I got caught in the rain, Mama …”
Source: Crime and Punishment
“Yesterday, I got lost.
You did too.
So what?
People get lost all the time.
It's just a matter of finding yourself, and treasuring that.”
“Yesterday, I had a dream... A dream I have had since long ago. In that dream, we had yet to turn 13. We were in a vast countryside, completely covered with snow. The lights of the houses extended far into the distance, a dazzling sight. We walked on the thick caprpet of fresh snow, but did not leave any footprints. And like that... 'Someday we will be able to watch the cherry blossoms together again'. Both of us, without any doubt... That's what we thought.”
Source: 5 Centimeters per Second
“Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.”
“Yesterday I heard—would you believe it?—Bizet's masterpiece, for the twentieth time. Again I stayed there with tender devotion, again I did not run away. This triumph over my impatience surprises me. How such a work makes one perfect! One becomes a "masterpiece" oneself.— And really, every time I heard Carmen I seemed to myself more of a philosopher, a better philosopher, than I generally consider myself: so patient do I become, so happy, so Indian, so settled ... To sit five hours: the first stage of holiness!— May I say that the tone of Bizet's orchestra is almost the only one I can still endure?”
“Yesterday, I injured myself
and the explanation didn't make sense.
I said, "Well, I was walking..."
and that was the end of the story.
At this age,
my body is a stranger that I
keep meeting over and over again.
The words "I am" are slowly
transforming into "I used to be”
Source: Helium
“Yesterday I learned that hours are nothing but bodies
We kill upon confronting,
Or perhaps they are the ones
That backstab us as soon as they are behind...”
Source: أنا زهرة برية [I am a Wildflower]
“Yesterday I learned that the breathing of whales is as crucial to our own breathing in the carbon cycle of the planet as are the forests of the world. Researchers say, if whales returned to their pre-commercial whaling numbers, their gigantic breathing would store as much carbon is 110,000 hectares of forest, or a forest the size of Rocky Mountain National Park.”
Source: Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals Emergent Strategy Series
“Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.”