Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilyn Monroe

Dogs have never hurt me. Only men have.

Marilyn Monroe

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Marilyn Monroe

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

Marilyn Monroe

I love to do the things the censors won't pass.

Marilyn Monroe

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

Marilyn Monroe

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

Marilyn Monroe

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

Marilyn Monroe

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside".

Marilyn Monroe

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

Marilyn Monroe

Who said nights were for sleep?

Marilyn Monroe

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Marilyn Monroe

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Marilyn Monroe

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Marilyn Monroe

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Marilyn Monroe

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.

Marilyn Monroe

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Marilyn Monroe

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Maria Menounos

I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat.

Mari Evans

I will bring you a whole person, You will bring me a whole person, And we will have us twice as much, Of love and everything.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love. . . .

Martin Luther King, Jr.

My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you....Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.