Ed Martin Quotes

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors it is our happiness to believe are not found on the executive calendar of any country.

She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.

You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore.

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

Anyone who's ever worked with Meryl Streep always says the same thing: can that woman act! And what's with all the Hitler memorabilia?

Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.

I've met a few people who were passive-aggressive, but I've never met anyone who was aggressive-passive. I don't want tacos! Maybe.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

If it hurts, DON'T DO IT AGAIN.

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

If your intuition is telling you not to do something, then don't. Your intuition is not stupid.

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.

When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.

I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

We must use time creatively.

I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.

You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

A man who won't listen can't hear.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

Music is split up now into little pockets.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done.