Ed Martin Quotes

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.

The most important thing in making money is not letting your losses get out of hand.

Time, the human dimension, which makes us everything we are.

The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.

If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001.

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.

Dogs seem more photogenic than cats. In photos most cats look like sociopaths.

Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals.

Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage.

It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement.

Our children need our presence, not our presents.

Donald Trump is not just a problem for the EU, but for the whole world.

Europe was founded as a community bound together by solidarity.

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.

Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to referendums. In Germany too.

Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.

Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

I cannot smell mothballs because it's so difficult to get their little legs apart.

I think we can all agree that every child's home deserves to be protected equally under the law, that there is dignity in every child's home.

The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win.

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.

To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.

That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.

That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing.

There's a very fine line between giving someone the Heimlich maneuver and dry-humping a stranger.

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Canada is our country. It belongs to us and we belong to it. Let us join together, in our time, and make history once again.

Turtles are greater than baby nephews, because it's ok to drop a turtle.

Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.

Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.

To pray diligently is more than half the task.

I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.