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Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Boredom: the desire for desires. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. – Leo Tolstoy Quotes

The Beatles Famous Quotes

Posted on October 1, 2009October 1, 2009 by

the-beatles – “That guitar is okay but you’ll never make a living with it” – John’s Aunt Mimi
– “What does it mean when a person is such a pacifist that they get shot? I can never understand that.” – John Lennon
– “We thought that if we lasted for two to three years that would be fantastic.” – Ringo Starr
– “When you’re drowning, you don’t say «I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me», you just scream.” – John Lennon, 1970
– “I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.” – Paul McCartney, 1969
– “I’m a tidy sort of bloke. I don’t like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.” – George Harrison, 1969

– “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one” – The Catcher in the Rye

– “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans” – John Lennon

– “We all have Hitler in us, but we also have love and peace. So why not give peace a chance for once?” – John Lennon

– “I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, «You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly»” – George Harrison

– “I am not the Beatles. I’m me.Paul isn’t the Beatles…The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.” – John Lennon

– “The things is, we’re all really the same person. We’re just four parts of the one.” – Paul McCartney

– “John had his thing, and Paul had his, and together there were two different things all together. But they fit.” – Billy Preston

– “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

“As far as I’m concerned, there won’t be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.” – George Harrison

– “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.” – John Lennon in a 1966 interview

– “I’m not saying we’re better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it’s all this.” – John Lennon

– “There’s a lot of random in our songs…writing, thinking, letting others think of bits-then bam, you’ve the jigsaw puzzle.” – Paul McCartney

– “Love is like a flower, give it time and it will grow” – John Lennon