Ed Martin Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

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

What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?

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

Laughter always forgives.

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

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

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

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.

The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.

I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

Truth crushed to earth will rise again.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

Dark wings, dark words.

Enlightenment, the old teachers say, adds nothing, except maybe the recognition of a need for and a commitment to the work that still needs to be done.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

we need to let our errors awaken, transform, and change us by taking them to heart, owning them.

Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.

Sometimes I see a bird fly by and I feel jealous. But then other times I see a bird fly into a closed window and I feel laughing.

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.

Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation.

Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.

You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right.

One thing I learned is that it's never OK to walk through a cemetery dressed as a mummy - even if that was a shortcut on the way to the costume party.

It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.

I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.

The danger is, you have a formula and you just repeat it.

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

Childhood is messy and beautiful.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

It's hard to make progress with grief.

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

I wonder what the High Septon would have to say about the sanctity of oaths sworn while dead drunk, chained to a wall, with a sword pressed to your chest?

For some reason cowboy sounds better than cowman.

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.