Quotes of: Martin-luther-king Keyword

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

Edward Sapir

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.

Franz Boas

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

Ferdinand de Saussure

The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love

Clarence Jordan

Euphemisms persist because lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Bergen Evans

There never was a man who could sit down and say: 'Now I am going to be the first man to write.

David Diringer

I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.

Jim Elliot

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

Jacques Lacan

By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

Erin McKean

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

Jacques Lacan

Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.

Martin Chemnitz

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

David Leavitt

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

Deborah Tannen

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift.

Grace Paley

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

Michelangelo Antonioni

The relationship between a military working dog and a military dog handler is about as close as a man and a dog can become. You see this loyalty, the devotion, unlike any other and the protectiveness.

Robert Crais

There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't know.

Robert Fitzgerald

Rather than diminishing the idea of 'truly needing' a relationship - and trying to deny it, shame it, or talk ourselves out of it - why not just celebrate it? It's exactly what the world needs.

Tracy McMillan

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

W. H. Auden

To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.

Richard Wilbur