Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.

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• George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Men
  • Gay
  • Name

• The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Want
  • Wish
  • Irish

• Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Power
  • Feel
  • Communication

• This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

  

  Walter Lang
  • May
  • Problem
  • Pride

• It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• As for a fantasy life, working women are more likely to fantasize about finding the perfect child care provider who she can both trust and afford. She might also fantasize that tonight her husband will both shop for and cook dinner.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Business
  • Proud
  • Joy

• I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble...

  

  Larry Wall

• Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • Culture

• New York City is one of the greatest places on the planet. You have the best in food, art, theatre, and definitely people-watching.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • People
  • Art
  • Food

• Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I think rap in general allows you to be more lyrically expressive. It's a lot easier to state your identity, as opposed to with a guitar making all these weird metaphors.

  

  Nora Lum
  • Weird
  • Identity
  • Rap

• The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Lord
  • Judgment
  • Supreme

• One day isn't dramatic, but that was the median. For the more severely ill, the net reduction was three days, and for those treated early, it was 2 to 3 days.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Comedian
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  • Reduction

• If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Ifs
  • Explanation
  • Havens

• The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Relationship
  • King
  • Friendship

• I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

  

  Story Musgrave
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Course

• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Communication

• If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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  • Criticisms
  • Constructive Work