Martin Luther King Jr Shareable Quotes

#1. We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.

Bobby Robson

#2. Although America loved its tough guys, they weren't ready to vote for leaders who exhibited no compassion for the downtrodden and miserable, for on any given day they might constitute a majority.

David Baldacci

#3. The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

Russell Edson

#4. He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, was sewing and doing activities that often take place in a household.

Paul Smith

#5. At first, she could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or had she always loved him?

Markus Zusak

#6. Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations; he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better.

Francis Quarles

#7. Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

#8. I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.

Jim Fowler

#9. I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn't cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people.

Rod Serling

#10. Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the
sinful.

Paul Bourget

#11. Closer,
it's all right. Touch the man of grief.
Do. Don't be afraid. My troubles are mine
and I am the only man alive who can sustain them.

Sophocles

#12. Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.

Deb Caletti