Yes

Yes is an affirmative particle in the English language.


 * For the English progressive rock band, see Yes (band).

Quotes

 * 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


 * 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).

And on that yes the future world depends. No was the night. Yes is this present sun.
 * After the final no there comes a yes
 * 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.
 * Keith Johnstone