Ed Martin Quotes

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.

The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today – my own government.

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

God invented space so that not everything had to happen in Princeton.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.

It turns out that knowing how loved we are by God makes all the difference in the kind of people we will become.

Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)

You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

It is well to lie fallow for a while.

Was there ever a war where only one side bled?

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.

And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track.

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.

Don't let anybody take your manhood.

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest.

The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.

I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

We ignore outlooks and forecasts... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.