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"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action'; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'" Martin Luther King, Jr. 4.6429 average rating Rate this Quote
"I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it." Thomas Mann 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable." Eugene Forsey Rate this Quote
"I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable." Edward Morgan Forster 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. Not the chairs and tables in my house, but the masterpieces of the world. It is only a question of loving them enough." Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others." Thomas Jefferson 3.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." Agatha Christie 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men-brave men-will make it so." John Fitzgerald Kennedy Rate this Quote
"I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people." Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 4.7778 average rating Rate this Quote
"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at." Frank Moore Colby 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it." Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy 3.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did." James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. 3.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America." Lyndon Baines Johnson Rate this Quote
"I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and have one's doubts." G. B. Burgin 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I think it every man's indispensable duty to do all the service he can to his country; and I see not what difference he puts between himself and his cattle who lives without that thought." John Locke 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on." Samuel Goldwyn Rate this Quote
"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House-with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." John Fitzgerald Kennedy 4.3750 average rating Rate this Quote
"I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable." (speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards)" Lizzy Gardiner 1.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example." Mario M(atthew) Cuomo 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate." Elbert Hubbard 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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