Top 70 Yes Carol Quotes

#1. the brain cannot do its most important job of organizing sensory messages.

Carol Stock Kranowitz

Yes Carol Quotes #42186
#2. So what should we say when children complete a task - say, math problems - quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let's do something you can really learn from!

Carol S. Dweck

Yes Carol Quotes #364412
#3. I am thinking of having a T-shirt printed: Yes my husband died. Yes I am very sad. Yes you are kind to offer condolences. Now can we change the subject?

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #363794
#4. Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.

Carol Berg

Yes Carol Quotes #188988
#5. Look at it, like a rat,' she said. 'A portrait of Harge.

Patricia Highsmith

Yes Carol Quotes #58874
#6. You do know when people say 'chic,' they mean thin.

Carol Grace

Yes Carol Quotes #46757
#7. Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.

Carol S. Dweck

Yes Carol Quotes #45691
#8. Lady Gaga is proof that David Bowie raped Carol Burnett!

Christopher Titus

Yes Carol Quotes #44927
#9. I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #44236
#10. yes, he had been preoccupied, but hadn't that been what I was looking for--someone who wouldn't pay too much attention, someone who wouldn't look at me to closely?

Carol Goodman

Yes Carol Quotes #364912
#11. Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #41267
#12. did he bring a condom to have sex with a woman with no uterus?

Carol Maloney Scott

Yes Carol Quotes #40008
#13. It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.

Susan Hill

Yes Carol Quotes #39926
#14. Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #39749
#15. [I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the primary center of consciousness just as I do. That fact alone ... Well, that fact alone is staggering.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #39597
#16. When you hear somebody with balls, that's me.

Carol Kaye

Yes Carol Quotes #38996
#17. The recounting of a life is a cheat ... even our own stories are obscenely distorted ...

Carol Shields

Yes Carol Quotes #37014
#18. I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

John Cusack

Yes Carol Quotes #36753
#19. Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #1382146
#20. And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #1878002
#21. Carol, I thought you didn't liked playing with the minds of normal people."
"Yes, but the press don't count as normal."
"She's got you there," HARV added.

John Zakour

Yes Carol Quotes #1876009
#22. Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on race relations in America more generally: we are 'roommates' with one another, but how well do we know one another?

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #1855116
#23. May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.

Carol Emshwiller

Yes Carol Quotes #1764806
#24. People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.

Carol Burnett

Yes Carol Quotes #1731219
#25. Yes, women have always had secrets and always will. I'm afraid men would be very distressed to learn what their darlings were thinking. Frankly, I don't think men are strong enough to bear the shock.

Carol K. Carr

Yes Carol Quotes #1614348
#26. Sebastian tapped his index finger on the polished wood thoughtfully. Yes, it was a universal truth: some things once broken were broken forever - like trust. It might be patched up and smoothed over, but it would always be the thing that had once been shattered.

Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #1595156
#27. Living's immediacy, you go full sail, you're in a fever of motion. Until it's safe and past and done and dead and you can say, like waking from a dream, "Yes I was happy then, yes now it's all over I can see I was happy then." Maybe that's the advantage of dying?

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #1437142
#28. You can always substantially change how intelligent you are.

Carol S. Dweck

Yes Carol Quotes #36512
#29. I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it.

Carol Leifer

Yes Carol Quotes #1162336
#30. Yes, he was depressed, but he was coping the way people in the growth mindset tend to cope - with determination.

Carol S. Dweck

Yes Carol Quotes #1102651
#31. That man," Carol said. "The thin man at Gordon's will reading, with the ridiculous name. He's involved in this, isn't he?"
"Skulduggery Pleasant," Valkyrie nodded. "And yes, he is.

Derek Landy

Yes Carol Quotes #1054548
#32. Moving your asshole-mouth & YES SIR I am saying NO MA'AM I am saying.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #1010074
#33. Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #783920
#34. Yes," Tanner nodded. "I have great appreciation for neoclassical architecture. The ten pillars in the portico give the building a remarkable feeling of dignity and charm."

Bethany lowered her eyes and stifled a giggle. When Tanner put on an act, he put it on well.

Carol Kinsey

Yes Carol Quotes #644247
#35. Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of, self? That first true loss, the furious bafflement of it. And never again quite so assured, confident.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #622006
#36. I love insult, it's always honest.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #14469
#37. Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who have made them aware of what they are doing. Often this is discomforting.

Carol J. Adams

Yes Carol Quotes #17989
#38. And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books."
"Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #17580
#39. No matter where There is, when you arrive it becomes Here.

Carol Kendall

Yes Carol Quotes #17167
#40. When we lay together, she showed me her soul, and I showed her mine, and they were the same. As you can imagine, mine was battered and bruised, tarnished like ancient metal. She scrubbed it clean. I cannot deny my own soul any more than I can deny she held it in her hands for a time.

Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #16188
#41. Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #15943
#42. My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay.

Carol Leifer

Yes Carol Quotes #15646
#43. Opening a present from a live person was scary enough. There was always the chance that the gift might be so wrong, so completely not the kind of thing you liked, that you'd realize they didn't really know you at all.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Yes Carol Quotes #15239
#44. For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

Carol Tavris

Yes Carol Quotes #15199
#45. Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

Carol P. Christ

Yes Carol Quotes #19874
#46. Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #14384
#47. Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Carol Berg

Yes Carol Quotes #14378
#48. You can't keep friends if you always say no to things.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Yes Carol Quotes #12778
#49. Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

Carol Bellamy

Yes Carol Quotes #12025
#50. Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.

Carol Bellamy

Yes Carol Quotes #11542
#51. The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

Carol Gilligan

Yes Carol Quotes #11155
#52. Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

Carol Vorderman

Yes Carol Quotes #9524
#53. I want to rebuild America.

Carol Moseley Braun

Yes Carol Quotes #5823
#54. One goes, or we all die

Carol Birch

Yes Carol Quotes #30367
#55. Nothing lasts forever. But there is new life; new colours, fresh words, new tunes to compose. There is now; time present, time future. We build with new bricks and hope our voices are heard, our music is sung and our love cherished for as long as it is offered.

Carol Drinkwater

Yes Carol Quotes #36494
#56. Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes.

Carol S. Dweck

Yes Carol Quotes #36296
#57. Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!

Carol Emshwiller

Yes Carol Quotes #35102
#58. As long as you're in motion, your perspective is obscured. Only when you reach the summit and turn to look back, can you be at peace.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #32625
#59. It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #32624
#60. Social media can be a powerful tool to listen to, engage with and gain access to customers that you would otherwise not be able to connect with.

Carol Roth

Yes Carol Quotes #32014
#61. On the way home Mary Lou said, "Some things are so sad you can't say them." But I pretended not to hear.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #31481
#62. What eventually set him apart was his mindset and drive. He never stopped being the curious, tinkering boy looking for new challenges.

Carol S. Dweck

Yes Carol Quotes #31242
#63. Social movement in this country has come when people get together,' said Carol Sutton of Norwalk, Conn., the president of a teachers union. It begins in the streets.' Climate marches

Anonymous

Yes Carol Quotes #5285
#64. The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.

Carol Mann

Yes Carol Quotes #26646
#65. Our actions today will protect children from the adverse effects of exposure to pesticides commonly used on foods. The agency also is on schedule to meet all deadlines for ensuring safer pesticides use under the new Food Quality Protection Act.

Carol Browner

Yes Carol Quotes #26262
#66. There was something so lonely about that moment, everyone around me completely involved in this thing I wasn't a part of, me with nowhere to go.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Yes Carol Quotes #23581
#67. Stay put and you will remain as such. Jump in and you might get wet. Dive and you might find true happiness.

Carol Vorvain

Yes Carol Quotes #23314
#68. When people with the fixed mindset opt for success over growth, what are they really trying to prove? That they're special. Even superior.

Carol S. Dweck

Yes Carol Quotes #22956
#69. Fame's carapace does not allow for easy breathing.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #21849
#70. Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yes Carol Quotes #21730

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