Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Live
  • New
  • Year

• I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Kids
  • Brain
  • Computer

• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Me

• I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Way
  • Things
  • Child

• When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Love
  • Love Is
  • Unkind

• Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Real
  • Education
  • Process

• The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

  

  Alice Morse Earle
  • Time
  • Why
  • History

• I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Rest

• Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Grows

• In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Future
  • Risk
  • Failure

• If you face a challenging task from God today, ask yourself, "How would Jesus handle this?" Then go and do the same.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Today
  • Wisdom

• If I get an order to evacuate a Jew from his home, to expel him, me, personally, my conscience would not let me do it. I'll ask my commander to excuse me, but I won't publicly call on others to refuse an order. I personally can't.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Home
  • Order
  • Excuse

• I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not freedom. Thus it seldom causes any public indignation when an enterprising tyrant claps down on one of his enemies. To most men it seems a natural proceeding.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Long
  • Freedom

• They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

  

  Willie Stargell
  • Giving
  • Baseball
  • Balls

• One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.

  

  Josh Mandel
  • Mistakes
  • Taxes
  • Paying

• I believe the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.

  

  Michael Gerber
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Difference

• Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Eternity
  • Empire
  • Colony Of Time