Martin Luther Quotes

The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

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• I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Family
  • Grow

• You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • You
  • Lies

• I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Fans

• The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

  

  Nate Parker
  • American
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Identity

• I hate the word sexy.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Hate
  • Sexy
  • Word

• You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Country
  • Love
  • America

• I exist as I am, that is enough.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Enough
  • Exist

• I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Want
  • Know

• Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

  

  Sallust
  • Man
  • Action
  • Thought

• The person who, let us say, expects generosity from a bank, efficient flexibility from a government agency, open-mindedness from a religious institution will be disappointed. In each purview the notions represent immorality. The poor fool might as quickly discover love among the mantises.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Religious
  • Fool
  • Generosity

• I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...

  

  Amy Tan
  • Fighting

• I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Life
  • Good
  • Petty

• For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.

  

  David Elliott
  • Time
  • Live
  • Art

• My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

  

  Jennifer Weiner
  • Real
  • Book
  • Sales

• One of the reasons that our colleges have gotten so expensive is because of tenure.

  

  Carlos Beruff

• I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

  

  David Morrissey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Ruined Cottage' by Wordsworth, Prospero's 'Our revels now are ended' speech near the end of 'The Tempest.'

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Lost
  • Tears
  • Paradise

• I'm on Twitter. I created my account for my fans, and I do respond back once in a while, because they're so great.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Great
  • Fans
  • Back

• She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Time
  • She
  • Excellence

• Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Today
  • Death
  • Reading

• The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Bible
  • Understood
  • Fools