Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • People
  • First
  • Stress

• Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • War
  • Lost
  • Pain

• The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Man
  • Revelation

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Live
  • Want
  • Plans

• We knew we were going to do a fashion line at some point.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Fashion
  • Point
  • Line

• Every human being grows up inside a sheath of custom, which enfolds it as the swathing clothes enfold the infant.

  

  Edward Carpenter
  • Up

• Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

• I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.

  

  Colin Mochrie
  • People
  • Revenge

• Most of the friends you trust are those you've known for 10 years.

  

  Amanda Eliasch
  • Friends
  • Trust

• The journalist must do his work in a kind of deliberately induced state of moral anarchy.

  

  Janet Malcolm
  • Work
  • Moral

• The nice way to meet a guy is through getting to know them first. Then you can really judge their personality. What I can't take is meeting someone, going on a date, getting to know them, then finding out they're a complete psycho - 'Great, I've just wasted all this time on you!'

  

  Kathleen Anne Brien
  • Time
  • Great
  • Guy

• Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Leadership
  • Competition
  • Innovation

• Times have changed, but people don't change. That's why ON THE ROAD has never been irrelevant.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Why
  • Road

• Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Secret

• If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Recognize
  • Unexpected
  • Arrives

• Finally he had decided that he had to free Lila, even if at that moment, perhaps, she had no desire to be freed. But—he had said to himself—it takes time for people to understand what’s good and what’s bad, and helping them means doing for them what in a particular moment of their life they aren’t capable of doing.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Free
  • Desire
  • Helping

• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Felt

• We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

  

  Aristotle
  • Live
  • Power
  • Immortality

• Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Immortality
  • Forgets
  • Proclaim