Ed Martin Quotes

If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

I don't actually own a car.

You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door.

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

It sounds very pretentious, but I don't lie. It's too uncomfortable. A lot of people think because you're an actor that makes you a good liar, but one of the things I can't articulate is a bad lie.

There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.

The only thing is worrying about sleeping. If I have to be up early I worry about being able to get to sleep.

I never went bungee jumping. The closest I did was I was born.

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.

No matter how confident you are in your own abilities, you can't build and run a business alone. You need your army pulling you ahead, rather than holding you back.

Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.

Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.

When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.

As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.

More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.

Shagga son of Dolf likes this not. Shagga will go with the boyman, and if the boyman lies, Shagga will chop off his manhood-" "-and feed it to the goats, yes," Tyrion said wearily.

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it

I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.

My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.

I am not the president; instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

The ones who count are those persons who - though they may be of little renown - respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.

Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

There is no I in Team, unless you count the vertical part of the T.

She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.

I try to never repeat a character. I always try to find something new and fresh and interesting that inspires me.

I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed.

Sometimes heckling can almost help a set, because it ratchets up the tension in the room... can even bring things to a climax.

All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.

When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.

I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on.

Comedy is not pretty.