Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be able to collaborate with some of my dream producers.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Dream
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• Everyone at a party is uncomfortable. Knowing that makes me more comfortable.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Me
  • Party
  • Everyone

• The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Relationship
  • Film
  • Audience

• I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Read
  • Modern
  • Novels

• It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• It was at the beginning of 1934 while working on the emission of these positive electrons that we noticed a fundamental difference between that transmutation and all the others so far produced; all the reactions of nuclear chemistry induced were instantaneous phenomena, explosions.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Beginning
  • Positive

• Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Never

• Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born with it. It looks as if I am smirking. I have had my publicist tell me, 'Don't do that smile on the red carpet.' I'm, like, 'That's my smile.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Smile
  • Smugness
  • Lopsided Mouth

• Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Single
  • Day
  • Numbers

• When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • True
  • Person
  • Playing

• It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • World
  • America
  • Team

• A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Good
  • End
  • Round

• I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • People
  • Writing
  • Losing

• Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Good
  • Me
  • Attitude

• I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Golf

• Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Single
  • Reason
  • Note

• I've been really privileged to work for two presidents - President Obama and President Clinton - who are both people of faith, who value faith, and who respect that others have the same feelings in their own lives.

  

  Jack Lew
  • People
  • Work
  • Faith

• The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Religious
  • Christianity
  • Despair

• I lived in San Jose for a little bit, and one of my neighbors was Vietnamese and was teasing me. I said "I've had pho," and then he goes, "Oh, what do you get, the number one big bowl?" I was like, "Come on, man. You don't have to come at me like that." But yeah, I've tried tendon. Tendon eventually yields.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Men
  • Bigs
  • Neighbor

• Outside' was more of a personal project. This, the 'African Giant', is more of an African project.

  

  Burna Boy
  • More
  • Personal
  • Project

• Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.