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Saying yes [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after yes.

Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after "yes."

Peggy Orenstein
Girl, Writing, Saying Yes
Source: www.macleans.ca

Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.

Nolan Bushnell
Creativity, Ideas, Saying Yes

Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.

Mireille Guiliano
Eye, Saying Yes, Learn To Say No
Mireille Guiliano (2013). “French Women Don't Get Fat”, p.259, Random House

Paradoxically, the toddler's "No" is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to convert his mother's restrictions and prohibitions into the rules for behavior that will belong to him.

Louise J. Kaplan
Mother, Saying Yes, Toddler
Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Touchstone

The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do” of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married.

Kathleen Norris
Mean, Saying Yes, Cost

You don't get anywhere without saying yes.

Joel Stein
Saying Yes
Source: therumpus.net

What gets me back to church, I think, is thinking maybe this time that question "Is it true?" will be answered, not just in terms of somebody saying, "Yes, it's true," but something will happen in a sermon or maybe shuffling up to the Eucharist, or in the old lady who's sitting beside me with a Bible - maybe something will happen which will show me that it's true. So I go back thinking, maybe this time I'll be lucky.

Frederick Buechner
Thinking, Church, Saying Yes
Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.

Erwin W. Lutzer
Temptation, Saying Yes

I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.

Danny Wallace
Love You, Saying Yes, World
Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

Let`s talk conspiracy theories here. All of a sudden today - first of all, it`s the hunger games at this point.All these people, establishment people, whether it`s Bob Dole or others saying yes - you know, Orrin Hatch saying actually, I`d take [Donald] Trump over [Ted]Cruz.

Chris Hayes
Games, People, Saying Yes
Source: www.msnbc.com

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
Character, Decision, Saying Yes
"Channing Tatum Talks Working with Roland Emmerich and Jamie Foxx, Doing His Own Stunts, MAGIC MIKE 2 and More on the Set of WHITE HOUSE DOWN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. April 10, 2013.

How often in your life have you been criticized for having the feelings you do?. Did this make you feel invalidated?. How often do you simply stuff your feelings and agree with others, saying yes, when you really mean no.

Catherine Cardinal
Mean, Feelings, Saying Yes
Catherine Cardinal (1998). “The Ten Commandments of Self-Esteem”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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