Ed Martin Quotes

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.

Seeing is not always believing.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.

If I look back I am lost.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.

I have decided to tell the world that I accept my homosexuality and celebrate this gift that life has given me.

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

I think there are so many little hurdles and impediments with stand-up that you'd need to have this insane desire to do it if you didn't have something that clicked right away.

Our veterans connect generations and Canadians. As a country and as individuals, we gain in pride and in purpose from their deeds and their service.

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

Word-of-mouth is powerful, trusted, and cheap.

You never forget your first kiss. And that's what makes it so hard to forgive my uncle.

Laughter always forgives.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

A Church that has lost its voice for justice is a Church that has lost its relevance in the world.

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.

I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all....a day.....an hour.

Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history

Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.

Men have scars, women mysteries.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

When I sleep I turn into a wolf. Bran turned his face away and looked back out into the night. Do wolves dreams?

Having a beard is a good way to make your face more susceptible to velcro.

Ministers must not be able to set rules governing solicitors on a whim, to suit their own requirements.

... the right to defend one's home and one's person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.

The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

What can I do to help? I am asking my senator to support political action to end hunger in the greatest country on this planet.

I try not to have expectations because they can tend to tear you apart. I expect to work as hard as I can possibly work and I expect to give every ounce of a hundred percent.

I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work.

I'm far from perfect but I have managed to earn a good deal of respect by trying to implement the kinds of things you learn about.

My fans freak out and think I'm never going to race again. And I don't want them to do that because I want them to be there to pull for me in the truck series next year.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is.

There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.

A brand is an emotional construct. It helps you to project an image to the world which you'd like to own.

We are going to look at the results at the end of the semester to determine the future of the program. I am really eager to see what the scores look like on the end of the semester report cards.