Yes
linguistic particle or adverb used to show agreement, acceptance, consensus, appreciation or an affirmative opinion
Yes is an affirmative particle in the English language.
- For the English progressive rock band, see Yes (band).
Quotes
edit- Yes is the answer and you know that for sure.
Yes is surrender, you got to let it, you got to let it go…- John Lennon, in "Mind Games", on Mind Games (1973)
- Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.
- Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star (1977), p. 11
- Unschuld ist das Kind und Vergessen, ein Neubeginnen, ein Spiel, ein aus sich rollendes Rad, eine erste Bewegung, ein heiliges Ja-sagen.
- Innocence, the child is, and forgetting; a new beginning, a play, a self-propelling wheel, a first moving, a holy Yes-saying.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Three Metamorphoses," Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Innocence, the child is, and forgetting; a new beginning, a play, a self-propelling wheel, a first moving, a holy Yes-saying.
- Y E S
- Yoko Ono, in her "Ceiling Painting" an avant-garde artwork presented at the Indica Gallery, in which people had to climb a white ladder and use a magnifying glass to see what was printed on a tiny message on the ceiling : "Y E S". (November 1966). It was during this exhibition that John Lennon first became familiar with her and her work, and he later referenced the work in his song "Mind Games" (1973).
- After the final no there comes a yes
And on that yes the future world depends.
No was the night. Yes is this present sun.- Wallace Stevens, "The Well Dressed Man with a Beard", in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (1965), p. 247
- Those that say yes are rewarded by the adventure they have. Those that say no are rewarded by the safety they attain.
