Quotes of: Martin-luther-king Keyword

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

A History of Reading

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

A History of Reading

I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.

Robert Fitzgerald

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.

Robert Fitzgerald

I see people detained for simple INS violations.

Sibel Edmonds

Haunted trees covered behind the curtains of their own leaves stare at the dark from the fringe of streets.

Suman Pokhrel

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

Thomas Henry Huxley

For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.

Thomas Henry Huxley

It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.

Max Muller

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

Erin McKean

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

Erin McKean

Independence is fun, especially when there's a beloved waiting in the wings, and freedom makes you a more interesting person. Having separate lives brings fresh air into a relationship.

Deborah Moggach

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

Timothy Radcliffe

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

Gilbert Murray

But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.

Anne Hutchinson

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

Brigham Young

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.

George Whitefield

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

Jim Elliot

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

William Ellery Channing

The Gospel of Judas is a kind of protest literature. It's challenging leaders of the church.

Elaine Pagels

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

Edward Sapir