Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
Quotes to Explore
-
All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
-
I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
-
I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
-
I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
-
I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
-
The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
-
My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
-
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
-
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
-
I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.
-
Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
-
I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!
-
I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
-
Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
-
When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
-
We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
-
Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.
-
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of man—the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factories—will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.
-
I've been blessed from the very beginning with the large gay audience, and I'm flattered. They always have the best taste anyways and are at the forefront of fashion, music, and style. So I'm really happy about that and very flattered. It's a good following to have because it means you're doing something right.
-
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
-
I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.
-
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.
