Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn Monroe

Friends accept you the way you are.

Marilyn Monroe

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Marilyn Monroe

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.

Marilyn Monroe

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met.

Marilyn Monroe

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

Marilyn Monroe

Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.

Marilyn Monroe

I live to suceed, not to please you or anyone else.

Marilyn Monroe

I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.

Marian Wright Edelman

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

Marian Wright Edelman

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Marian Wright Edelman

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

Marian Wright Edelman

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

Martin Lawrence

Life- ride it until the wheels fall off.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even the church, is filled up with people who pay lip service to God and not life service. And there is always a danger that we will make it appear externally that we believe in God when internally we don't. We say with our mouths that we believe in him, but we live with our lives like he never existed. That is the ever-present danger confronting religion. That's a dangerous type of atheism.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our world hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so. God has made the universe to be based on a moral law. So long as man disobeys it he is revolting against God. That's what we need in the world today: people who will stand for right and goodness.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

My friends, all I'm trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind. That's the only way that we would be able to make of our world a better world, and to make of this world what God wants it to be and the real purpose and meaning of it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical demands of the universe. As Christians we owe our allegiance to God and His will, rather than to man and his folkways

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a law-abiding universe. This is a moral universe. It hinges on moral foundations. If we are to make of this a better world, we've got to go back and rediscover that precious value that we've left behind.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from "Rediscovering Lost Values")

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you this evening that it is not enough for us to talk about love, love is one of the pivotal points of the Christian face, faith. There is another side called justice. And justice is really love in calculation. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

Mark Wahlberg

The world obviously needs to change ... if we can't protect our innocent women and children, then we have a serious problem.

Mark Kennedy

We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.

Mikhail Gorbachev

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

Naomi Judd

Your body hears everything your mind says.

Prem Rawat

It's okay to ask questions, but get the answers. So, where are the answers? Since the questions came from within you, guess where the answers are? Within you.

Joseph Stalin

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Leonardo DiCaprio

My mother is a walking miracle.

Oscar Wilde

The final mystery is oneself.