Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • House
  • Feeling
  • Drawing

• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• Power is the by-product of understanding.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Understanding

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Question
  • Health
  • Healthy

• There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Learning
  • Fight

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
  • Changing
  • Vampire

• Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Life
  • Family
  • Business

• Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mean
  • Nose
  • Solar

• You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Book
  • Happiness

• My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Up
  • Help
  • Support

• As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • High
  • Culture
  • Myself

• Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Economy
  • Sustainability

• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  

  Sally Struthers
  • God
  • Why
  • Man

• Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Know
  • More
  • Nerd

• I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Better

• It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • May
  • Best
  • Years

• When I was a struggling actor, I worked for a party company. One of my friends from school was working for an advertising agency, and I turned up to one of his company's parties dressed as an alien to collect tickets on the door.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • People
  • Famous

• But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.

  

  William Kunstler
  • People
  • Country
  • Fighting

• During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland.

  

  Jules Verne
  • War
  • City
  • Rebellion

• I'm a liberal - I believe in subsidies for public goods and in regulations to curb harmful externalities, but neither of those things exist when it comes to parking.

  

  Matthew Yglesias
  • Believe

• When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Victory
  • Sacrifice