Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Life
  • Music
  • Feeling

• A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can't afford it, and two, it's daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won't be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Start

• I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Up
  • Teenager
  • River

• You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Children
  • Kindness
  • Skiing

• Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • See
  • Relationships

• There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Different
  • American
  • Internet

• I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Good
  • Imagination
  • Gone

• I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Young
  • Hopeful

• It's a pleasure. We are lucky guys to be there in front of the millions and millions watching us.

  

  Pep Guardiola

• No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to write something where performance is much more important than extensibility, then you might want to choose C rather than Java.

  

  Brian Behlendorf
  • Important

• What's great about the way 'Shame''s been received is that I kept on thinking there's no way this film will be received well since I've had such a good time.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • World

• Violet said...'We've never known anyone who could remain so cheerful, no matter what terrible things occurred.

  

  Daniel Handler

• Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Knows

• If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're not going to have the future that we could have.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Future
  • Public
  • Scientists

• Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Death

• Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

  

  Cotton Mather
  • Mother
  • Ignorance
  • Devotion

• I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • College
  • Dad
  • Worked

• To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Game
  • Me

• We don't have a hundred years to fix climate change. We don't have a hundred years to wait until we've built all these bridges and rapport and scientific understanding and so on and so forth. We have to fix climate change with the people we have right now, and to a large extent with the perspectives we have right now as well.

  

  Katharine Hayhoe
  • People
  • Change
  • Understanding

• The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty, might I please introduce my daughter to you?" The queen replied, "I have come here to view the library."

  

  Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford
  • Daughter
  • Library
  • Visit

• We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Decided
  • Difficulties
  • Self-purification