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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.


E.M. Forster

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HENRY JAMES After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
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TEKOA MANNING There is a degree of uncertainty, yes.
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CHINA MIéVILLE Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
AL SKINNER Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.
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SOURCE UNKNOWN We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'...
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"Yes there is. The law of gravity.
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
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STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Our people are still on alert, but, yes, there is a truce.
EDMUNDO ESPINDOLA Yes, advisers are there to do well for you, but if they can make a buck off of you they're going to.
REUBEN BREWER If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.
NIKKI GIOVANNI No. --Claire

Bullshit! Yes, a world of yes. --Eve
RACHEL CAINE Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. See, the institutions and specialist, experts, you see. Yes, yes,
experts, indeed. See, they wo...
CRISTINA MARRERO Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short....
SHANIA TWAIN Could it be done? Yes, ... But there would be unpleasant side effects for a guy. I wouldn't rush off...
DAVID KATZ When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the o...
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excu...
VIGGO MORTENSEN The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Oh yes, yes, yes, it's great to just get away from the regular schedule you have all season.
BRIAN SKINNER The goal is to get to yes. It's to get to yes on a gas pipeline.
BECKY HULTBERG I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records.
BILLY SHERWOOD Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
"Yes."
"You called her a liar?"
"...
J.K. ROWLING Until you learn how to confidently say NO to so many things, you shall always say YES to so many thi...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How do you know Tony Harwood is lying? His lips are moving. Is he violent? Yes. Is he a racist? Yes....
ED GARLAND It's a disgrace. On one side, we are so advanced, and on the other side, yes, we are so advanced, bu...
GUILLERMO VICUNA Yes, I totally would date a fan! I get this question a lot, but I'm always saying yes.
CODY SIMPSON Yes, by the grace of God.
AYUB KHAN Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
GAY TALESE Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe.
KAMAND KOJOURI It's a hefty cost, yes. But there is a lot of academic pressure on children these days.
CHRISTINE MCCABE We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
SIGMUND FREUD In a way, yes,
CHARLIE MANUEL i imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E.E. CUMMINGS If you die, yes, the money comes back, but less comes back.
BRIAN OROL Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
RACHEL STEVENS There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but ther...
AMANDA ELIASCH Yes, I’d still have Sonia. And Zia. And so many other things that Karim no longer had. I’d still...
KAMILA SHAMSIE You can say 'No' and smile only when there is a bigger 'Yes' burning inside of you.
STEPHEN R. COVEY Ah, Signor Halt,' he said uncertainly, 'you are making a joke, yes?'
'He is making a joke, no,'...
JOHN FLANAGAN There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.
GROUCHO MARX I'm very proud of it as a Yes record amongst many of the other Yes records.
BILLY SHERWOOD Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Yes, we have learned from the last two years and, yes, there are signs of real progress, but I don't...
ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN The creativity? Oh, yes. OH, YES!
MEG RYAN Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no
RICHARD BRANSON A lot of the times, yes.
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E. M. FORSTER Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. FORSTER Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
E. M. FORSTER Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to l...
E. M. FORSTER Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. FORSTER Love is always being given where it is not required.
E. M. FORSTER The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in...
E. M. FORSTER Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
E. M. FORSTER I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
E. M. FORSTER A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing ...
E. M. FORSTER The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should ...
E. M. FORSTER Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.
E. M. FORSTER The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of an...
E. M. FORSTER Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. FORSTER Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. FORSTER We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the stat...
E. M. FORSTER Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. FORSTER America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be inter...
E. M. FORSTER There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one d...
E. M. FORSTER Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who ...
E. M. FORSTER Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both wil...
E. M. FORSTER Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves...
E. M. FORSTER I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people...
E. M. FORSTER Ideas are fatal to caste.
E. M. FORSTER Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orde...
E. M. FORSTER Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wr...
E. M. FORSTER As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through e...
E. M. FORSTER Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates t...
E. M. FORSTER Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.
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