Yeses Quotes

#1. I don't know why some prayers get yeses and some prayers get nos. I know the anguish of a no when you want a yes more than you want anything in the world. But I don't know why. I only know that in the Cross God's no to his only Son was turned into God's yes to every human being who ever lived.

John Ortberg

#2. Enjoy saying "no!" but don't make it the wellspring of your vitality. Be fueled by blood-red yeses ...

Rob Brezsny

#3. What is a life? A series of yeses and noes, photographs you shove in a drawer somewhere, loves you think will save you but that cannot. Continuing to move, enduring, not stopping even when there is pain. That's all life is, he wants to tell her. It's continuing.

Hala Alyan

#4. Say no to a lot of yeses.

Enock Maregesi

#5. People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.

Oona Chaplin

#6. Sometimes the noes are just as important as the yeses because they represent cul-de-sacs, allowing you to narrow your field of inquiry until you stumble into the heart of the maze.

Sue Grafton

#7. Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential.

Madonna Ciccone

#8. When you put yourself out there, a lot of people will reject, dismiss, or ignore you. But a few will embrace and champion you. While the nos may sting, only the yeses matter.

Jessica Hagy

#9. To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. It is important that a woman's "noes" be respected and her "yeses" be respected.

Warren Farrell

#11. A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.

Pat Conroy

#12. We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at least
call it a mechanospiritual sense
we are meant to be. We are good eggs, every one of us.

Natalie Angier

#13. Even knowing everything, I would have chosen the same.
It's only in hindsight that we can point, as easily as finding a town on a map, to the moments that shaped us, - the moments when choices between yeses and noes determined the people we become.

Chelsey Philpot

#14. It's really not so much about the amount of yeses or nos; it's about the brokenness behind our answers.

Michelle Anthony

#15. Ultimately, if you want to make movies, you've got to want to make movies every day, when people are paying you to make movies and when they're not, because you're going to get a lot more no's on this business, no matter what it is, than you are going to get yeses.

Morgan Spurlock

#16. Hesitations're yeses or nos if the questioner already knows the answer.

David Mitchell

#17. So next time you feel like your world is about to end, I hope you studied because He's testing your faith again.

Kendrick Lamar

#18. Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.

Trevor Rabin

#19. I listen a little to the Democrats, and if one of them gets elected, we are going on defense," Giuliani continued. "We will wave the white flag on Iraq. We will cut back on the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance, interrogation and we will be back to our pre-September 11 attitude of defense.

Rudy Giuliani

#20. Try this: say the words "global, global, global" aloud several times, as fast as you can. You'll find yourself sounding like a turkey ("gobble, gobble, gobble").

Jim Stanford

#21. The psychic is a phenomenal world in itself, which can be reduced neither to the brain nor to metaphysics.

C. G. Jung

#22. And a compassionate person creates a warm, relaxed atmosphere of welcome and understanding around him. In human relations, compassion contributes to promoting peace and harmony.

Dalai Lama XIV

#23. Turing was always a legend among computer/geeky kids. He was such an outsider in his own time, and because of that, he was able to see things differently. It was a story that had been well told in books, onstage and on TV, but never on film.

Graham Moore

#24. At a time of massive inequality, I think we can raise substantial sums of revenue to address the needs of working families, the elderly, and the children, by asking those people who are doing phenomenally well to start paying their fair share.

Bernie Sanders

#25. Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#26. I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

Helena Bonham Carter