`` Yes '', she said, almost in a whisper, as if admitting to a crime.

When we repeat the remark that such suffering was a bad thing, the feeling with which we made it last week may be at or near the vanishing point, but if we were asked whether we meant to say what we did before, we should certainly answer Yes.

Yes, sure, I'll see the doctor -- this evening, if you insist.

" It is believed he was the intended target of the Yes, Minister joke where Jim Hacker, upon being asked for the political implications of becoming an E. U. commissioner, replies: " you're reduced to forming a new party if you ever want to get back in ".

* Actor Philip Michael Thomas was asked by television producers if he had ever played a police officer, and he replied " Yes, I was a cop in a feature film.

" When he explained to Beckett that he was playing Lucky as if he were suffering from Parkinson's, Beckett said, "' Yes, of course.

Discussing paintings of pleasant landscapes, Lady Croom mistranslates the phrase as " here I am in Arcadia ", on which Thomasina drily comments, " Yes Mama, if you would have it so ".

Researchers seeking to rebut accusations of anti-Semitism often point to the fact that Kolbe sheltered Jewish refugees during the war, and, according to one person who worked close to him: " When Jews came to me asking for a piece of bread, I asked Father Maximilian if I could give it to them in good conscience, and he answered me, ' Yes, it is necessary to do this because all men are our brothers.

" According to an anecdote recorded on a papyrus, dating to around 250 BC, Hieron once asked the poet if everything grows old: " Yes ," Simonides answered, " all except money-making ; and kind deeds age most quickly of all.

" Yes, he plays like a god ," Hanslick writes in closing, " and we do not take it amiss if, from time to time, he changes, like Jupiter, into a bull ".

There's nothing I would do to change things if I could ... Yes, I would.

When asked if Brundtland was sure about Jagland, he replied, " Yes.

Asked if he trusts Ganesha, Nirriti replies " Yes, but I would give him his silver afterward ", a clear reference to Judas Iscariot, Nirriti being a Christian.

" Yes, when in mournful moments we want to strengthen and encourage our minds by contemplating those great men, your chosen instruments, who in severe spiritual trials and anxieties of heart kept their minds free, their courage uncrushed, and heaven open, we, too, wish to add our witness to theirs in the assurance that even if our courage compared to theirs is only discouragement, our power powerlessness, you, however, are still the same, the same mighty God who tests spirits in conflict, the same Father without whose will not one sparrow falls to the ground.

If the man says " No ", then the path does lead to freedom, if he says " Yes ", then it does not.

' If the man says " Yes ", then the path leads to freedom, if he says " No ", then it does not.

" And then some wag would add, in a solemn, drawling tone, as if it were his purpose to give particular emphasis to the fact that John Brown was really, actually dead: " Yes, yes, poor old John Brown is dead ; his body lies mouldering in the grave.

The guy was not only still looking at me but he thrust his head forward as if to say, ' Yes, I'm still looking at you.

Before the match, Funk stated that he would shake Flair's hand if he lost, a promise he kept when he shouted, " Yes, I quit!

In Strained Relations, a 1985 episode of the TV series Only Fools and Horses, the character Uncle Albert asks Rodney, played by Nicholas Lyndhurst, if he had ever been on board a ship to which he replied " Yes " but then added it was " only the Woolwich Ferry.

The first such game theorized was Why don't you / Yes, but in which one player ( White ) would pose a problem as if seeking help, and the other player ( s ) ( Black ) would offer solutions.

Phocion responded: " Yes ; however, they would kill you if they came to their senses.

A lawyer asked him if he was defying the people's will, and Phocion responded: " Yes, even though I know that if there is war I will be your boss, and if there is peace you will be mine.

Yes, we know, they're professionals, men paid to play, and they shouldn't care how they're handled, just as long as their names are spelled correctly on the first and fifteenth of each month.

Yes moon, they're lying in bed.

Once, when friends argued that he needed to care for his finances since he had a wife and children, and that money was a necessary thing, Pelopidas pointed to a blind, crippled pauper named Nicodemus and said, " Yes, necessary for Nicodemus.

In Yes, Prime Minister Hacker strives to perfect all the skills needed by a statesman, giving more grandiose speeches, dreaming up " courageous " political programmes, and honing his diplomatic craft, nearly all of these attempts landing him in trouble at some point.

All you can do is shuffle your feet and say, ' Yes, Ma ' am.

`` Yes '', Herr Schaffner had said.

`` Yes '', the German said.

`` Yes '', she said, `` I remember that they came here every summer.

`` Yes, sir '', she said, `` is that definite ''??

Arlene was so ashamed that she hung her head when she said, `` Yes, sir ''.

`` Yes '', I said.

`` Yes, it sounds great '', I said, `` but suppose you don't think of yourself as an impressionist painter ''??

`` Yes, a little parkish place '', Charlotte said, and concluded, `` Anyhow, it's all very nice.

`` Yes '', he said, eagerly, beginning a kind of dance of excitement.

`` Yes '', she said quietly.

`` Yes '', said Mercer, a little ashamed of his obviousness.

When asked whether the UK should replace Trident, without being told of the cost, 44 % of respondents said " Yes " and 46 % said " No ".

When asked the same question and told of the cost, 33 % said " Yes " and 54 % said " No ".

Paul heard him out and said merely, " Yes, pray for me ; because of my weaknesses, the Church is badly governed ".

According to George Bush, when he asked her to marry him, she had said, " Yes.

" As our tastes got more obscure ," Geddy Lee said in a recent interview, " we discovered more progressive rock-based bands like Yes, Van der Graaf Generator and King Crimson, and we were very inspired by those bands.

:- Yes, Mr Bloom said, and another thing I often thought is to have municipal funeral trams like they have in Milan, you know.

" Yes, there is ," John said quietly, after a short pause.

Due to this, he left Yes because they said that they will continue lengthy touring, something Wakeman wanted nothing to do with anymore.

: Yes, he did say, " He said, ' Good morning ' ".