John Lennon Quotes
Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.
John Lennon
The Beatles
Quotes to Explore
Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
Jack Nicklaus
And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short at the sun. The air is already bought and sold as a commodity, by health resorts. And what of water? Or waterpower? Why should the earth be parceled out into private hands? Is it any different from the sun? No; the earth belongs to the people who live on it. God intended it for them, but it has been taken over by private individuals. Privare means to steal. Thus private property is stolen property - property stolen from God and from humankind!
Eberhard Arnold
I was very pleased with both starting groups there, ... It's still preseason, but we needed a good lift.
Joe Gibbs
I take Him shopping with me. I say, OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain.
Tammy Faye Bakker
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde
Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.
Ai-jen Poo
If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative, marked by fear, suspicion and feelings of helplessness, even among your best friends, in a pleasant atmosphere and comfortable surroundings, you won’t be happy.
Dalai Lama
I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.
Marianne Williamson
I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.
P. D. James
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
Terry Eagleton
