Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Business
  • Balance
  • Financial

• There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Dream
  • Storm
  • Snow

• When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • World
  • Mind
  • Thought

• I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

  

  Karen O
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Through

• The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Why
  • Want
  • Cancer

• Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Me
  • Group
  • Thank You

• We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Future
  • Vision

• My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Family
  • Art
  • Interesting

• How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Life
  • Education
  • Cost

• You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Black
  • You
  • Tell

• I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Time
  • Feeling

• I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.

  

  La India
  • God
  • Love
  • Mother

• I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Up
  • World
  • Perfect

• When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Me

• I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Kind
  • Musician

• Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Remember
  • War
  • Brain

• Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • You
  • Leadership
  • See

• If one door closes and another does not open, try climbing thru a window, either way, make your way in.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Way
  • Door
  • Window

• I don't get star-struck at all.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Star
  • Get

• The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Live
  • Right
  • Arms

• [During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Father
  • Race
  • Europe

• The race needs workers, not leaders.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Needs
  • Leader
  • Race

• We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Race
  • Arms
  • Shift