Martin Luther Quotes

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

Martin Luther

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• A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Together
  • Change

• I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

  

  Dan Marino
  • People
  • Life
  • Doing

• The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Always
  • Autobiography

• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Help
  • Earth
  • Know

• When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Art
  • Book
  • Care

• I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Up
  • Rock
  • inspirational

• I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Think
  • Day
  • Cool

• I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Money
  • Opportunity
  • Car

• Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Father
  • Parents

• It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Easy
  • Started
  • Getting

• There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Me
  • Moment
  • Part

• I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Up
  • Time
  • Baseball

• I've never YouTubed myself, and I'm actually scared to do it. I think I may just let sleeping dogs lie on this one.

  

  Taylor Handley
  • May
  • Think
  • Myself

• To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Real
  • Knowledge

• It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Work
  • Constitution
  • April

• I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Watching

• Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • May

• All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Together
  • Design

• I see I have this patience to wait it out, and the truth is no matter how dark I feel I would never take my own life, because when the darkness is over, then what a blessing is the feeblest ray of light!

  

  Valerie Martin
  • Patience
  • Blessing
  • Wait

• In L.A., it's the sort of city where you have to have a car to get around.

  

  Logan Green
  • City
  • Car

• So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course, is now that we've had well over 100 years of this history to establish separate cultures, different ways of worshipping, and different ways of understanding theology so that when people try to come together makes it very difficult. And then, of course, social networks, you know, how do we find a place to worship?

  

  Michael Emerson
  • History
  • Cultures
  • Theology

• I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Vain
  • Gentlemen
  • Sparrows

• I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Hair
  • Head
  • Sparrows