Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • History
  • Natural
  • Clever

• Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Work
  • History
  • Original

• I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Want
  • Deep
  • End

• Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Chess

• Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Islam
  • Ideology

• They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

  

  Jack Cade
  • May
  • True
  • Pleasure

• A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Boy
  • Independent
  • Ice

• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Character
  • Woman

• Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Long
  • May
  • Hope

• I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Kids

• In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Writing
  • Short
  • Medicine

• I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Time
  • Successful
  • Comfortable

• I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Up
  • Breakfast
  • Pool

• I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Real
  • Night

• Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Think
  • Trump

• What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

  

  Mark Twain
  • People
  • Earth

• I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has never been married. An unmarried man is not married at the moment. Many of these terms have fallen into disuse.

  

  Raymond Burr
  • Moments
  • Dictionary
  • Bachelors

• I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Privacy
  • Protective

• Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I have had the good fortune to live - as an inside witness and, even, a modest participant - at a time when our understanding of this wonder we call 'life' has made its most revolutionary advances.

  

  Christian de Duve
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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  • Philosophy