Inspirational John Lennon Quotes & Sayings

In the land of ideas, you are always renting. — Steven Soderbergh

Stand up for the things that are right. Try to talk things out instead of fight. — Robert Alan Aurthur

I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you. — John Lennon

I don't stand back and judge - I do. — John Lennon

I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically. — John Lennon

I still believe that all you need is love. — John Lennon

I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE. — Madonna

That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. — John Lennon

Elaborate. Lots of things could be considered weird, so I'm not sure what you're referring to. — Colleen Hoover

Then she reached lower and started to ease my pants down. I stopped her so I could get my shoes and socks off first. Pants-pooled-at-the-ankles is too helpless a posture for me. — Barry Eisler

There are no problems, only solutions. — John Lennon

If everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place! — John Lennon

We need to love ourselves first in All our glory and imperfections — John Lennon

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. — John Lennon

Unfortunately when I'm on my death bed I believe I'll be like most people and still looking for Jesus. And yes I've checked my sock drawer. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

I was asked in an interview which was more important: money or love?
I told the interviewer that if he had to ask the question, he wouldn't understand the answer. — John Lennon

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight. — John Lennon

One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life. — John Lennon

When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care. — John Lennon

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends — John Lennon

My vocation is to make my life an act of worship — Ashley Judd

Bridget reckons John Lennon wrote a song about her. I'm guessing it was 'Give Peace a Chance'. — Bridget Golightly

The obsession with security at any price petrifies us, and we increase our fear by trying to eliminate risk. That is what is ridiculous about the great outcries in the media: we wake up in order to demand more passivity, a better protected life. The challenge is not only to decrease the amount of space the media devote to hazards but also to increase our ability to resist misfortunes. To augment our endurance rather than our panic. — Pascal Bruckner

They'll never be able to forget us. — John Lennon

They made us believe that each one of us is the half of an orange, and that life only makes sense when u find that other half.
They did not tell us that we were born as whole, and that no-one in our lives deserve to carry on his back such responsibility of completing what is missing on us: we grow through life by ourselves. If we have a good company it's just more pleasant. — John Lennon

I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital. — Demetri Martin

The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living the life of the mind - yes, these formative and abiding principles of higher education in America had their first and firmest advocate, and their greatest embodiment, in a tall, fair-headed, friendly man who watched this university take form from the mountainside where he lived, the university whose founding he called a crowning achievement to along and well-spent life. — Ronald Reagan

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else. — John Lennon

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence. — John Lennon

Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity. — George Darley

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one. — John Lennon

Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream. — John Lennon

I'll probably be popped off by some loony. — John Lennon

I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music. — Rivers Cuomo

Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it. — John Lennon

News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966) — John Lennon

In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy. — David Sheff

Still I caught glimpses of another creature there in the tress, one with round eyes and a predator's hungry stare; but by the time I understood that I was the prey, my fate had already been sealed. — Lyndsay Faye

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are! — John Lennon

Ghost: Murder most foul, as in the best it is. But this most foul, strange and unnatural. — William Shakespeare

If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body ... every addition to that body enables Him to do more. If you want to help those outside you must add your own little cell to the body of Christ who along can help them. Cutting off a man's fingers would be a odd way of getting him to do more work. — C.S. Lewis