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Quotes About Yes

Maybe accident isn't the right word at all. Maybe miracle is. Or maybe it's not a miracle, Maybe this is just life. When you open youself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes.
~ Gayle Forman
To Mother no was simply a yes that hadn't had a chance to hear her out.
~ Ilona Andrews
Tell me," he demanded. "Tell me when. I'm going to come with you." . . . "Tell me," he ordered. "I'm . . . yes!" she said. "Yes!" . . . "Can you really do that/" she asked. "Come on command?" --Mike Muldoon, Navy SEAL, to Joan DaCosta
~ Suzanne Brockmann
It takes more power to say no out of love than to say yes out of weakness. This notion is at the very heart of establishing a healthy relationship with your money.
~ Suze Orman
Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.
~ Freeman Dyson
Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives and deaths to simple ritual….how we said no, no, no, no to the most beautiful YES ever uttered - life itself.
~ Charles Bukowski
But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also.
~ Chinua Achebe
One of the only things I've regretted was saying yes to a TV special, 'Motown Mania,' and I said I'll sing you a Diana Ross song. It was just naff.
~ Lisa Stansfield
Gravity has a hand. Bear in mind trapdoors. We fall in love, yes? Tumble, in fact. Is it choice? Enough said.
~ Tim O'Brien
anything that says Yes to life is automatically saying No to war.
~ Tom Robbins
So if you had the chance . . . even if there was no music and no ballgown, no tuxedo or gala . . . when your true love asked you to dance? It was important to say yes.
~ J.R. Ward
I am a Yes fan, ultimately. I've been a member of the band, but I was always a fan of the band first.
~ Rick Wakeman
The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear".
~ J. P. McEvoy
The great thing about the 'Fast and Furious' world is everything is up for speculation. Yes, anything is a possibility.
~ James Wan
I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.'
~ Bo Bice
I always loved Bill's contribution to the early Yes albums. Alan later took over from him and did great things but there was something about Bill's concept of the thinking musician that we've never had since Bill left.
~ Chris Welch
That's a horrible plan. Yes, but I have chosen to ignore that.
~ Christopher Moore
In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.
~ James A. Garfield
The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no
~ Colum McCann
After a pause, one half of the children cried in chorus, 'Yes, sir!' Upon which the other half, seeing in the gentleman's face that Yes was wrong, cried out in chorus, 'No, sir!'—as the custom is, in these examinations. 'Of
~ Charles Dickens
Styx has their own style of music, and I think that's justifiable, the same way that Asia and Yes have had - Yes particularly has a unique style that seems to have transcended all styles of music for 43 years.
~ Geoff Downes
Only catatonics and coma patients can persevere in a dignified withdrawal from life's rattle and hum. Without a "yes" in our hearts, nothing would be done. And to be done with our existence en masse would be the most ambitious affirmation of all.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Freedom is not a philosophy, nor it is even an idea. It is a movement of consciousness that lead us, at certain moments, to utter one of two monosyllables: Yes or No. In their brevity, lasting but an instant, like a flash of lighting, the contradictory character of human nature stands revealed.
~ Octavio Paz
Was it just that? She was to be content to weave a steady life with him, all one fabric, but perhaps brocaded with the occasional flower of an adventure. But how could she know what she would feel next year? How could one ever know? How could one say Yes? for years and years? The little yes, gone on a breath! Why should one be pinned down by that butterfly word? Of course it had to flutter away and be gone, to be followed by other yes's and no's! Like the straying of butterflies.
~ D.H. Lawrence