Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Learning

• I caught the acting bug from my dad.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Dad
  • Acting
  • Caught

• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Home
  • Step

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Question
  • Myself
  • Trust

• If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Earth
  • End

• I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.

  

  Sam Walton
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Name

• The historian is a prophet looking backward.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Looking
  • Prophet
  • Backward

• Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Trying
  • Become
  • Harm

• You reach a point where you don't work for money.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Work
  • Money
  • You

• Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Want
  • Film
  • Listen

• When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Hate

• An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Man

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'

  

  Saint Basil
  • Long
  • May
  • Fear

• I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Comfort Zone

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Think
  • Better
  • Now

• You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.

  

  James Balog
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Children
  • Child
  • Stars

• People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Night
  • Year

• Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Love
  • Night
  • Hate