Top 100 Yes But Quotes
#1. And in all of this, to what end?" "No end save itself: I pass the time to pass the time, and stay involved to stay involved." "Yes, but why?" "Why not?
Iain M. Banks
#2. There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word. He wasn't a fraud. He was Robert De Niro.
Nick Hornby
#3. Do I make fashion mistakes? Yes, but I won't say what.
Domenico Dolce
#4. I have a name," I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder.
"Yes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel," he said, trying it out in different ways. "No one will tremble in terror at that. Oh my God!" he said in a high falsetto. "It's Rachel! Run! Hide!
Kim Harrison
#5. We plead not ourselves, but the promises of Jesus; not our strengths but His; our weaknesses yes, but His mercies. Our way of fighting is to hide behind Jesus who fights for us. Our hope is not the absence of our regret, or misery or doubt or lament, but the presence of Jesus.
Zack Eswine
#6. Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.
Thomas Merton
#7. When I look around at this world, we women need each other so badly, it breaks my heart. Sisterhood is dissipating, and we aren't doing nearly enough to salvage it. Eliminate the crazies in your life, yes. But also look again at those around you.
Grace Gealey
#8. I've never once thought about the interpretative, the storytelling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever. You can tell your story any way you damn well please. It's your solo.
Jandy Nelson
#9. Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find another way to get my 'yes.' But I'm a loyal person.
Naomi Campbell
#10. Well, yes, but it's not about the football."
"You're saying that football is not about football?"
"It's the sharing," she said. "It's being part of the crowd. It's chanting together. It's all of it. the whole thing.
Terry Pratchett
#11. Why on earth would you want to talk to me? (Channon)
My lady, do you not own a mirror? (Sebastian)
Yes, but it's not an enchanted one. (Channon)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#12. Money is important yes, but not the most important. I don't need money to smile or breathe. I would still be breathing if all my money disappeared tomorrow.
Aeriel Miranda
#14. My love for you reaches beyond the borders of continents,
so vast in scope that I would cross oceans to be with you.
Yes, but does that same love penetrate so deep
as to dare thee to sink to the oceans' depths to find me?"
-from "My Aquarius
Richelle E. Goodrich
#15. Reeds are strong, you know, Ulean whispered to me. They bend during storms, rather than break.
I blinked. Yes, but reeds won't hold up a house.
They make a good raft, so don't write them off so fast.
Yasmine Galenorn
#16. Yes, but if you have difficulty deciphering my sesquipedalian language, then you must be even more intimidated by my magnitudious appearance.
Peggy Christian
#17. As I took in the scene, I smiled softly. Family and friends - that's what mattered most. Money made a difference, yes, but it couldn't buy back a life.
Yasmine Galenorn
#18. He wanted to be loved and cherished, yes. But he also wanted to be fucked.
Heidi Cullinan
#20. You were afraid of me? Don't you meet with the Fallen in Sheol?"
"Yes, but none of them had ever stolen my heart nor left me without words to ponder its loss.
Amy A. Bartol
#21. I've always cared - hated, yes, but that's still caring. Hating you has been one of the most constant things in my life. I'd be lying if I said I didn't look forward to our verbal sparring everyday.
Dirk Hunter
#22. I am not interested in being vice president of the United States. I've let the candidate know. If the candidate asks me to be vice president, the answer is I got to say yes. But he's not going to ask me.
Brian Williams
#23. Being with men can be exciting and pleasurable, yes. But take my word for it, they are not as wonderful as they think they are." - Cyane
M.M. Kin
#24. We are naked, lance-constable!' 'Only technically. This mud really sticks.' 'I mean underneath the mud!' said Angua. 'Yes, but if we had clothes on we'd be naked underneath them, too!' Sally pointed out.
Terry Pratchett
#25. Didn't anyone tell you that size doesn't matter?"
"Yes, but I told him to put his pants back on and go home.
Christine Warren
#26. I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.
Elena Ferrante
#27. Smoking was a bad habit, yes. But he looked so good doing it." - The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Michelle Hodkin
#28. CAMPBELL: All poets. Poetry is a metaphorical language. MOYERS: A metaphor suggests potential. CAMPBELL: Yes, but it also suggests the actuality that hides behind the visible aspect. The metaphor is the mask of God through which eternity is to be experienced.
Joseph Campbell
#29. My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.
Donatella Versace
#30. It's a tiny bestseller, but, officially yes. But, hey, most people haven't read Moby-Dick, so why the hell should they read my book?
Richard Linklater
#31. A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee.
Eric Berne
#32. I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-"
"She's foul enough to be one ... "
"Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.
J.K. Rowling
#33. Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.
K. A. Paul
#34. Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.
Bill Griffith
#35. You can't fight destiny - taunt it, yes, but to fight it will only consume you and, in the end, destiny always wins.
Amelia Hutchins
#36. I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.
Stanley Donen
#37. Women are formed for love, yes, but also for purpose, and the highest state for a woman - for all humans, in fact - comes when one discovers and then achieves one's ultimate purpose.
Therese Anne Fowler
#38. Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
John Derbyshire
#39. My good sir, is she your daughter then?'
'Yes, but don't pay any attention to what she says,' said the lord. 'She's a child - a silly, foolish thing.'
'Indeed,' said my lord Gawain, 'then I'd be very ill-mannered not to do what she wants.
Chretien De Troyes
#40. As odd as it seemed, I learned that people may disappoint you, yes, but the one thing they also did was surprise you. Some of the best people were also some of the worst, there was no way to judge anyone really, you had to let them prove something.
Holly Hood
#41. The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.
Ian Gardner
#42. Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.
Dweezil Zappa
#43. I'd been hurt, yes - but I'd never meant to become hurtful. I didn't want to close down anyone but myself.
David Levithan
#44. You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?"
"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there as the geek. They like to watch me eat my shit. But it pays the light bill and takes me to the racetrack. I don't have any excuses about why I do it.
Charles Bukowski
#45. Yes, but I think-" "We should go out on a date tonight? I totally agree,
R.L. Mathewson
#46. Two-hundred forty horsepower isn't enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul.
Albie Sachs
#47. I just went home to Illinois, and I asked my family, 'Are you guys planning on talking in those accents the whole time I'm home?' And my mother said, 'You used to talk like that, too, Tasha.' And I said, 'Yes, but you see, I've reinvented myself. Do you have any idea who I think I am?'
Natasha Leggero
#48. Can I join you at lunch?"
She paused. "You have every other day."
He laughed, a sound as musical as the chiming song of the lupine fey when they ran. "Yes. But you resented it every other day."
"What makes you think I won't resent it today?"
"Hope. It's what I live on ...
Melissa Marr
#49. Does having a wife and kids change your act? Yes, but only in the best way. It gives you weight and authority. It also makes you closer to the audience because the audience is married and has kids.
Chris Rock
#50. Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.
Adrian Belew
#51. Yes, but if I were to look down there what would I see?"
"Don't think about it like that," Greta said. "That's not the only thing that makes you Lili.
David Ebershoff
#52. Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.
Dustin Hoffman
#53. You kissed me yes, But it was not just goodnight even then I could feel the promise in it. The promise that you could kiss me like that forever.
Nicholas Sparks
#54. Don't feel too bad" I offered. "I met him face-to-face, and I missed it, too."
"Yes, but no one expected you to be clever Miss Rook."
"Thanks for that," I said
William Ritter
#55. While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.
China Mieville
#56. Yes, but everyone is beautiful to someone.
Kevyn Aucoin
#57. No, I do not want to be loved unconditionally. I want to be shown when I am treating you less than you deserve. I want you to leave if I ever start making you promises I do not see through. Love me for my flaws, yes, but don't you dare ever allow them to hurt you.
Beau Taplin
#58. There is pain in being a woman, yes, but there is pride in it, too.
Mary Pauline Lowry
#59. You were talking to that niche in the wall again, Gwyneth. I saw you."
"Yes, but it's my favorite bit of wall, Gordon. I'd hurt its feelings if I didn't stop and talk to it.
Kerstin Gier
#60. I never played drunk. Hung over, yes, but never drunk.
Hack Wilson
#61. Life is fleeting, yes, but also eternal; it will always find a way to begin again.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#62. When I die," he continued, "you're next in line."
"Do you actually believe I'll outlive you?" West asked. "With my vices?"
"I have just as many."
"Yes, but I'm far more enthusiastic about mine.
Lisa Kleypas
#63. You Can Trust. Yes, but Try to remember even Demons had their wings.
Kent Ian N. Cny
#64. Didn't I tell you that you would be safe as long as you were with me?"
"Yes, but I didn't believe you when you pushed me off the edge of a building.
Missy Lyons
#65. I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was a terrible kind of freedom - one from misery and pain, yes, but also one from lightness and laughter and life. It was an absence of everything.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#66. Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.
Philip Roth
#67. Garrett never looked straight at her, sideways yes, but never straight. Couldn't concentrate that way. Too uncomfortable. That didn't mean Garrett didn't see what was right in front of him.
Destiny Booze
#68. It's colder than hell (yes) but
the blankets are thin,
and the pulled-down shades
are as full of holes as love is.
Charles Bukowski
#69. Yes. But prepare yourself, there's going to be a lot of cuddling tonight." "Ew." I scrunched up my nose at him. "I know, I know. But you're going to have to be brave and put up with it." Quietly, I laughed. "I think I can do that.
Kylie Scott
#70. And in improvisation there is one hard and fast rule, and that rule is known as 'Yes And'. The term yes and: to say yes, and not just yes, but to add information. In the adding of information you don't negate the other persons idea - but you build on it.
Maya Rudolph
#71. Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany.
Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.
Terry Pratchett
#72. Only please, do be careful to bear in mind that Mordak's a goblin. Enlightened, yes, but a goblin. He likes his employees loyal or lightly steamed on a bed of bruised rocket.
Tom Holt
#73. Yes, but not in chairs that don't belong to us," countered Mma Makutsi. "That's the trouble with this country, Mma - there are too many people sitting down in other people's chairs.
Alexander McCall Smith
#74. - But you have to reason it out then and convince yourself.
- Yes, but there are reasons of the heart that reason doesn't encompass.
Manuel Puig
#75. So many people say, 'So, what, are you a party girl?' And I say, 'I'm a walking good time.' Do I sometimes go out and drink? Hell, yes. But could I have a number one song if I wasn't also working hard? Maybe that needs a little more respect.
Kesha
#76. I went down to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours. He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.
Steven Wright
#77. People who claim they are motivated by the Purpose end up behaving differently - and generally better - than people who serve other masters." "So it is like believing in God." "Maybe yes. But without the theology, the scripture, the pigheaded certainty.
Neal Stephenson
#78. Yes, but none of them can steal my ship.
None of them are smart enough to know that it was the right thing to do at the time.
Howard Tayler
#79. How much more comfortable it is to say 'Yes, and ... ' than 'Yes, but ... '.
Lawrence Fagg
#80. You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.
Jesse Jackson
#81. I think my gap adds character. A while ago, on the street, a guy yelled, 'You could stick a gold through your front teeth!' Which meant I could put a £1 coin between them. But you can't. I've tried! Fifty-pence coins and 2-pence coins, yes. But not a pound.
Georgia May Jagger
#82. That mouth. Smoking was a bad habit, yes. But he looked so good doing it.
Michelle Hodkin
#83. Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
Marvin Minsky
#84. We've already visited Alsace. Twice." "Yes, but I did not tell you all there is to know of it." "I can hardly wait to hear more," he said with no enthusiasm. Cinderella
K.M. Shea
#85. The moon belongs to the lovers? Yes! But it also belongs to the lonely! It belongs to anyone who needs it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#86. Weigh the cost your yes will have on your spirit, your soul, and your body. You may have to search for your brave yes, but you will have to fight for your strong no.
Emily P. Freeman
#87. Yes, but I say that Nature is our enemy, that we must always fight against Nature, for she is continually bringing us back to an animal state. You may be sure that God has not put anything on this earth that is clean, pretty, elegant or accessory to our ideal; the human brain has done it.
Guy De Maupassant
#88. We are samurai, Lord. Death defines us. We must become a master of dealing it to our enemies, yes, but most of all lose all fear of our own.
David Kirk
#89. Yes, but my nose is running.' Then what do you have hands for, you slave?
Epictetus
#90. There are so many great stories and characters out there that you can just keep saying, "Yes," but you've got to eventually make the decision that if it's something you really want then do it for yourself.
Channing Tatum
#92. Daylight might have answered yes; but darkness and the horrors of death said no.
William Golding
#94. Vain, silly creature. Made for loving? Yes, but she'll have no lover, for I don't want her and she'll see no other.
Jean Rhys
#95. Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
Ed Wood
#96. It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.
Macaulay Culkin
#97. I'm never going to understand the Barrani."
"You needn't sound so morose, Lord Kaylin. They are unlikely to understand you either."
"Yes, but I'm unlikely to try to kill them for fun.
Michelle Sagara West
#98. I'd not taken you for a fool. Silent yes, but a fool, no.
Erika Swyler
#99. When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. When he says perhaps, he means no. When he says no, he is not a diplomat. When a lady says no, she means perhaps. When she says perhaps, she means yes. But when she says yes, she is no lady.
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
#100. Nothing so bad you need to be cruel. Tough, yes. You'll have to kill, yes. But there's a difference in the heart. One makes you mean. The other keeps you going.
Marjorie M. Liu
