Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

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• In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.

  

  Halsey
  • Men
  • Women
  • Passion

• Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Men
  • Women
  • Water

• Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Men
  • Gay
  • Looking

• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Trying
  • Power

• An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Power
  • Powerful
  • Impact

• But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Ocean

• I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Power
  • Best
  • Emotional

• I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Power
  • Movie
  • Myself

• If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Good
  • Men
  • Long

• Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Way
  • Spiritual
  • Intuition

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Mom
  • Mother`s

• Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Best
  • Safety

• Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Good
  • Work
  • Love

• The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Men
  • Happy

• You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Love
  • Character

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• There was a time when the conservative movement was led by the likes of Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol and Bob Bartley, men of ideas who invested the Republican Party with intellectual seriousness.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Time
  • Men
  • Party

• Mahavira, the Jain patriarch, surpassed the morality of the Bible with a single sentence: 'Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.' Imagine how different our world might be if the Bible contained this as its central precept.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Different
  • Single

• In the Third World, honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road. 2. When anything doesn't. 3. When anything might. 4. At red lights. 5. At green lights. 6. At all other times.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Road
  • Red

• Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.

  

  Black Hawk
  • Way
  • Hero
  • Asks

• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Men
  • Power
  • Spiritual