Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • World
  • Intelligent
  • Doctor

• It's nice to actually look done-up, because people see a different side of me, the more girly side. Obviously, I can't do that with cycling. I can't go with nice girly hair and full make-up.

  

  Laura Trott
  • People
  • Different
  • Nice

• Pineapple reduces swelling.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Swelling

• Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Movie

• I don't have kids at all and I thank God that I never did.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • God
  • Kids

• Although we must be prepared for a catastrophic large-scale strike, a cyber armageddon, the reality is that we have been living with a constant barrage of cyberattacks for some time. The trend, I believe, will continue.

  

  James R. Clapper
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Reality

• You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

  

  Bill James
  • Winning

• I really like the Gorillaz and Arctic Monkeys.

  

  Jay IDK

• The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Desire

• I'm really drawn to chameleons; I'm really drawn to people who can play a wide range of roles, who are really versatile, but are so in a way that's with ease.

  

  Matt Letscher
  • People

• The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

  

  David Harvey

• I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Risk

• I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that I could write, or I wished I could write. Sometimes a writer just sounds like they're in your head, and that is really cool for me.

  

  Lorde
  • Good
  • Song
  • Cool

• We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Battle

• Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Money
  • Kids

• I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Light
  • Chance
  • Kitchen

• The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Men
  • California

• I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Source

• Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can't have any left. Give me, God, what else you have. Give me what no-one else asks for. Amen.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • God
  • Health

• Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.

  

  Kate Sheppard
  • Thinking
  • Single
  • inspirational

• As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about...is suffering, affliction.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Success
  • Suffering

• Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Lightning
  • Strikes
  • No Sound