Quotes of: Martin-luther-king-jr Keyword

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.

Wentworth Miller

History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Collected Essays Of Thomas Henry Huxley

as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.

Come, Thief: Poems

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

The Evolution Of Theology: An Anthropological Study

Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?

The Evolution Of Theology: An Anthropological Study

Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race fo...

Arlie Russell Hochschild

The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and disc...

Arundhati Roy

Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

Marie de France

Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily resolved. I guess that's what wars are about. Wars are about prejudice and fear. Hit first before you get hit. Believe me, I know.

Mel Gibson

All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.

A History of Reading

I salute my desires with a bow. were it not for them to come and play mind would be empty just like me.

Jeevanko Chheubaata

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?

The Map of Love

And so the very thing that should make Egypt strong - the richness and diversity of her culture - serves to divide her and make her weak.

The Map of Love

So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away--

The Map of Love

Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.

Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

The Library at Night

Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.

The Library at Night

If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.

The Library at Night

Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no such thing.

The Library at Night

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

The Library at Night

I've learned through my own relationship with God that He's not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

Joyce Meyer