Yoko Book Quotes & Sayings

It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure ... — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week. — J.D. Greear

What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it's going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it. — Carrie Fisher

The one who wins all the time is great and powerful, but the one who had been trampled on and fallen is who I admire the most — Michelle Kwan

I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection! — Yoko Ono

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time. — Yoko Ono

The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of those things. So you underplay it. — Patrick Macnee

It's difficult to explain love. You want to explain water? You need a book for it. There are many different ways to explain what water is. Love is big, it's very big. I know that I have tons of it. But maybe we don't want to open up so much, and we think, maybe we don't have so much, but yes, you know that you have tons of love. We all do. Through that love we can connect, we can heal each other, we can make people, all of us, happy, joyful, and make a better world. — Yoko Ono

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do. — Yoko Ono

Make your own dream.
That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story, that's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.
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.
There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you. — John Lennon

I didn't tell him that I grew up in an ugly city that taught me how to look between dust and rubbish and potholes to find a splinter of glass that looked like unmelting ice, beautiful in its defiance of the sun. — Kamila Shamsie

I do believe that God's word is infallible, unchanging, perfect. — John Shimkus

People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form. — Yoko Ono

not as a potential lover. Roger would have liked it otherwise, but he was wise — Elizabeth Lowell

I don't need immortality. The fear of death keeps a girl sharp. It helps us remember that what we do here, now, matters. What good is immortality, if you're just a dirty little despot in some shitty corner of the world? — C.M. Hayden

There are common denominators that unite all members of al-Nahda: There is no one in al-Nahda who doubts about Islam There is no one in al-Nahda that believes in extremist views of Islam. — Rashid Al-Ghannushi