Ed Lee Quotes

It takes life to love life.

I ruptured my plantaris muscle. It runs through the calf and goes down the side of your achilles and stretches right to the heel.

I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.

Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

Sometimes you think in order to act, sometimes you act in order to think.

I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.

Now is a time for change, a time to become the greatest version of yourself. And a time to to make your grandest vision of the world .

What is Truth? Truth is the attribute of when the human heart marries the love of God, and the result is passion for your spiritual path.

Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy.

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.

I'm even afraid to lay down with you at night, because when you go to bed at night, mean woman, you got an ice pick in your hand.

As long as we separate this oneness into two we won't achieve realization.

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

No one's going to shoot at me.

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

There's no way you could convince me today that Jesus is not real.

Jesus is my forgiver, my leader, and my friend.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

Be true to yourself, and stick with who you are through thick and thin without letting anyone dilute your essence.

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.

The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.

The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.

Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship.

There is no moment, ever, that does not either hold an opportunity or a lesson that God is offering.

At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings.

The world makes up my pictures, not me.

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.

The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.

Hey! You can be more than just a car company. You can be more than just a pet food company. You can aspire to loving dogs, rather than just feeding dogs.