Best Yes Or No Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Book:My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.”

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Author:Horace Mann

“Your capacity to say "No" determines your capacity to say "Yes" to greater things.”

Inspirational Choices Greater Capacity Determine Saying Yes Freedom To Choose Choose Wisely Greater Things Yes Or No

Author:E. Stanley Jones

“Only a Bush could answer a 'yes' or 'no' question two different ways and be wrong both times.”

Way Two Different Answers Different Ways Yes Or No

Author:Bill Maher

“I've worn so many things, I've tried on so many things...I've spent probably thousand of hours in fittings. I can know so quickly how something's going to feel on me, look on me. It's a pretty fast courtship. I say yes or no pretty quickly.”

Knows Feels Looks I Can Hours Thousand Worn Courtship Yes Or No

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.”

Choices Bits Information Fundamentals Binary Yes Or No

Author:James Gleick

“All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and that is "yes." Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.”

Men Doe Philosophy Answers Bread Substance Zero Nothingness Affirmation Nihilism Saying No Blocked Saying Yes Yes Or No

Author:Victor Hugo

“God is love. Yes or no? No.”

Love God God Love God Is Love Yes Or No

Book:Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still

Source: Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still

“Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.”

Law Yeah Collections Yes Or No

Book:For Love Alone

Source: For Love Alone

“The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.”

Want Writing Reason Life Is Fighting Novel Clear Objects Reader Racism Complicated Reason Why Voting Yes Or No Against Racism

Author:Margaret Atwood

“The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.”

Kind Decision Principles Simplest Binary Yes Or No

Book:Archaeological Decipherment: A Handbook

Source: Archaeological Decipherment: A Handbook

“What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to say yes or no. For a couple of weeks, I will tune everyone out who is giving me advice, so that I can make a clear decision on my own and it takes time.”

Giving I Can Two Lasts Difficult My Own Decision Careers Clear Week Minutes Advice Couple Tunes Take Me Take Time Two Weeks It Takes Time Last Minute Yes Or No

Author:Paul Walker

“When someone asks you the question 'Are you ticklish' it doesn't matter if you say yes or no, cause they're going to touch you. If someone asks if you're ticklish and you don't want to be touched you should something like 'I have diarrhea, now don't touch me cause you'll make it come out... and yes I'm very ticklish'.”

Ifs Want Should Matter Humor Funny Asks Causes Touched Touch Me Yes Or No Diarrhea Ticklish

Author:Demetri Martin

“Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil.”

World Stories Problem Evil Sides Black White Description Superficial Superhero Black Or White Yes Or No

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.”

Needs Feels Matter Remember Periods Essence Response Considering Remember When Yes Or No Crux

Author:Martha Beck

“If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.”

Ifs Want Needs Giving Persons Suffering Chance Silence Yes Or No

Author:David Duchovny

“The thing is, when you put a button in someone's hand and give them the power of yes or no, no is a shorter word. People just say no. The power lies in who can say no the most. But, real power, though, lies in the opportunity to say yes. I think people ultimately realize that, but not when they're in the spotlight.”

People Thinking Giving Real Hands Lying Opportunity Realizing Buttons Spotlight Real Power Yes Or No Just Say No

Author:Adrian Pasdar

“Decision is often the difference between greatness and mediocrity. In every man's life there comes a time when he must search for a cause, a work, an ideal to which he can give himself. Whether he says 'Yes' or 'No' to the challenge will determine his future.”

Men Giving Causes Challenges Differences Decision Greatness Ideals Determine Every Man Mediocrity There Comes A Time Yes Or No

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“So bitcoin gives us an opportunity to reclaim the power of the people to say yes or no to what the government claims that it wants to do.”

People Want Giving Government Opportunity Claims Bitcoin Yes Or No

Author:Stefan Molyneux

“You always go by your gut. That's the best you can do. You go by what you feel, and you say yes or no based on what it inspires in you.”

Feels Can Do Inspire Guts Yes Or No

Author:Alex Kurtzman

“I want my games to teach a message about life, by presenting situations where the answer isn't a clear yes or no.”

Want Games Answers Situation Teach Clear Messages Presenting Yes Or No

Author:Hideo Kojima

“I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an arbitrary and superstitious yes or no, was in fact a pivotal moment in my life.”

Knows Looks Moments Facts Demand Insignificant Arbitrary Superstitious Pivotal Yes Or No Pivotal Moments

Book:Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“I was always getting my way. I was always the guy saying yes or no.”

Way Guy My Way Saying Yes Yes Or No

Author:Richard Patrick

“Senate has to advise and consent. That doesn't mean you have to vote yes; you can vote no. It's not a rubber stamp. But what these guys are doing is, "Wait a minute, we don't have to vote yes or no, and maybe we can trick our voters into not holding us accountable for not voting yes or no."”

Mean Guy Waiting Minutes Vote Tricks Voting Voters Senate Consent Stamps Advise Rubber Yes Or No Yes You Can Not Voting

Author:Tim Kaine

“If we have to go through a mental exercise, yes or no, every time we are faced with a tough decision, we will continue to have trouble with living what we supposedly believe.”

Ifs Believe Decision Trouble Exercise Tough Tough Decisions Yes Or No

Author:LaVell Edwards

“Our problem in Quebec is our summer is so short that we can't wear bathing suits, whatever, what kind of bathing suit. So I mean, we have this debate with political parties involved whether we should forbid the burkini yes or no, and this was in the media, you know, front page for days and days and days. This is wildly exaggerated. And people that don't live for instance in Montreal, where they don't have a diverse population, they think this is a real problem.”

“It's a time when a lot of principle virtues are being tested. Do we still believe in the truth? Do we still believe in empathy? Do we still believe the protection of the weakest among us? These are yes or no questions, but the means of communication is all tied up with those virtues and you can't abandon those virtues as you pursue them.”

Believe Mean Stills Principles Virtue Communication Empathy Protection Pursue Abandon Tied Tested Tied Up Yes Or No Means Of Communication

Author:George Saunders

“I find it very hard to say yes or no quite openly, because people are never satisfied. One day they write us off as saying we're not together and the next day we're together and getting married.”

People Writing Together One Day Married Getting Married Yes Or No

Author:Freida Pinto

“I think all of us set out to try and reach as many people. That's the whole point of being in a band: trying to get your music out there. So, any opportunity to do that, within reason. We're informed about where our music is going to be used; we get to say yes or no. There are things we can turn down, and there are things we can agree to. When it comes to movies and stuff like that, it's great for us. I don't think it's selling out. Maybe 10 or 20 years ago it was seen as selling out, but nowadays I think it's the only way to get your music out there.”

People Thinking Trying Reason Opportunity Music Is Agree Selling Selling Out Yes Or No

Author:Daniel Taylor

“As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. I don't mean there's never any overlap. You learn things in one area and bring them into another area. But giving a speech against racism is not the same as writing a novel. The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.”

Giving Writing Mean Art Different Reason Reality Artist Fighting Novel Racism Complicated Point Of View Loyalty Voting Yes Or No

Author:Margaret Atwood

“There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.”

“The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.”

Words Greek Thoughtful Thought Provoking Requirements Power Of Words Deep Thought Saying No Antiquity Saying Yes Ancient Greek Greek Philosopher Yes Or No Yes And No

Author:Pythagoras

“And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.”

People Film Moving Decision Directors Red Blue Faster Tone Culmination Binary Yes Or No

Author:Jason Reitman

“When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.”

“Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.”

Looks Asks Sky Flower Sheep Yes Or No

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well. . .they're just a fathomless collection of grays and I don't do so well on the midtones.”

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Book:The Thursday Next Collection 1-3: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots

Source: The Thursday Next Collection 1-3: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots

“I give you five minutes to spare your blushes. here is the little bronze key that opens the ebony caskets on the mantle piece in the Louise-Phillipe room. In one of the caskets you will find a scorpion, in the other, a grasshopper, both very cleverly imitated in Japanese bronze: they will say yes or no for you. If you turn the scorpion round, that will mean to me, when I return that you have said yes. The grasshopper will mean no... The grasshopper, be careful of the grass hopper! A grasshopper does not only turn: it hops! It hops! And it hops jolly high!”

Ifs Giving Mean Littles Doe Said Turns Rooms Five Pieces Minutes Keys Return Rounds Careful Grass Hops Be Careful Spares Five Minutes Bronze Jolly Yes Or No Scorpions Caskets Grasshoppers

Author:Gaston Leroux

“Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will come from grace to gather us up. We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty. If we say we can, we’re lying. If we say No, we don’t see it, That No will behead us And shut tight our window onto spirit. So let us rather not be sure of anything, Beside ourselves, and only that, so Miraculous beings come running to help. Crazed, lying in a zero circle, mute, We shall be saying finally, With tremendous eloquence, Lead us. When we have totally surrendered to that beauty, We shall be a mighty kindness.”

Ifs Helping Running Spirit Lying Kindness Grace Window Circles Dull Zero Helpless Miraculous Eloquence Mute Yes Or No

Author:Rumi

“I mean, what if love isn't a yes-or-no question? It's not either you're in love or you're not. I mean, aren't there different levels? And maybe these things, like words and expectations and whatever, don't go on top of the love. Maybe it's like a map, and they all have their own place, and then when you see it from the sky - whoa.”

Ifs Mean Different Levels Sky Goes On Expectations Maps What If Different Levels Yes Or No

Author:David Levithan

“If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.”

Ifs Inspirational Heart Fear Confidence Wise Words Positivity Conviction Believe In Yourself No Fear Saying No Open Heart Saying Yes Yes Or No Fear None

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Nicholas this is one of those 'yes' or 'no' questions again. You seem to have a problem with those. Did you or did you not kill a woman - Jo”

Problem Seems Yes Or No

Book:The Renegade Hunter: An Argeneau Vampire Novel

Source: The Renegade Hunter: An Argeneau Vampire Novel

“Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift”

Asks Answers Moral Issues Moral Issues Yes Or No

Author:Tamora Pierce

“One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.”

Doubt Certainty Converting Verify Yes Or No Doubt And Certainty

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Raphael turned me over and looked at me, his face close to mine. "You and I will never be done.You're my mate." He kissed the corner of my mouth. I almost cried. "I stopped sleeping since you left," he said "I'll sleep for a couple of hours, wake up, you're not there." I closed my eyes. "I need an answer, Andrea," he said. "An answer?" "Mate. Yes or no." "Do you need to ask?" I whispered. "You're my mate.”

Needs Said Done Eye Faces Asks Left Hours Sleep Answers Mines Couple Mouths Wake Up Corners Mates Cried Raphael Yes Or No Andrea

Author:Ilona Andrews

“Baz. "Have you ever done this before?" Simon. "Yes. No." "Yes or no?" "Yes. Not like this." Baz. "Not with a boy?" Simon. "Not when I really wanted it.”

Done Wanted Boys Yes Or No

Book:Fangirl: A Novel

Source: Fangirl: A Novel

“Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out of conscience. Conscience is cultivated by others, by the vested interests, by the establishment. Consciousness is yours. It is individual, it is not collective. Conscience is part of the mob psychology. Consciousness gives you dignity because it gives you individuality. It gives you rebellion, it makes you capable of saying yes or no of your own accord. There is no foreign agency manipulating you in the name of religion, morality, etcetera.”

“Why don't you be together with me? If you can't say it out now, then you just answer by selecting... 1st, if you say YES, we will get married right away 2nd, if you say NO, I will use every possible way to make you say YES and get married right away 3rd, if you say you need time to consider, I will give you one day to think over it and then get married So you just choose, is it YES or NO? No, it's either 1st, 2nd or 3rd. Marry or not marry?”

Ifs Thinking Way Needs Giving Use Together Answers Drama One Day Married Over It Time Of Need Yes Or No

Author:Park Shin-yang

“When you're the presidential nominee you get to pick whomever you choose to be on the ticket, and that person gets to say yes or no because, obviously, it's a very important decision.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.”

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Author:William Gaddis

“There's not a yes or no answer to that. We want to prepare as a team to be as good as we can be out of the gate. If two months into the season or when Roger makes a decision to come to Arlington, I'd love to sit down with Buck and decide whose spot he takes. In reality so much happens during the course of the season, I don't see it as a problem.”

Ifs Want Two Problem Reality Happens Courses Decision Answers Team Months Seasons Spots Gates Bucks Roger Two Months Yes Or No Arlington

Author:Jon Daniels

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