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

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• Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

  

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• The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

  

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• 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!

  

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• I was very pleased with both starting groups there, ... It's still preseason, but we needed a good lift.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
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• I take Him shopping with me. I say, OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain.

  

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• In my state [ Maryland] we've lost jobs to NAFTA, we did not gain jobs from NAFTA. But I think it's very difficult when your state is right up against the northern border, you do see things differently.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Up
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• I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

  

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  • Long
  • Children
  • Television

• People's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Action
  • Courses

• An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

  

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  • Man
  • Giving
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• In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Drawing
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• The intention of each lesson is getting you to recognize what you're doing, kinesthetically. Once you're conscious of it, you then can choose whether to continue doing the same thing or not.

  

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• 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.

  

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  • Working
  • Proof
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• Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.

  

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  • People
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• 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.

  

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  • Mind
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• 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
  • Time
  • Sad
  • Honor

• 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.

  

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  • Music
  • Book
  • Nature

• Try not to miss me when I'm gone.

  

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• Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Died
  • Prisoner
  • Bronze

• 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.

  

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  • Important
  • Revolution
  • Prejudice

• 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
  • Died
  • Examples
  • Martin Luther King