Ed Martin Quotes

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

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.

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

Really, we don't relate our Atlanta setup to here. I feel like the shock [absorber] package will be different and the springs will certainly be different than Atlanta.

I'm not comfortable telling my kids how they should be or how they should think or how they should act or anything else.

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

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.

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

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

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.

Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

I bought a clock, but the big hand broke off of it... so I just added "ish" to every number.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

There is no room for being creative in today’s business... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient.

Different is not wrong.

Once you find out what makes you comfortable and happy, it's a lot easier to be confident.So, be yourself!

History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.

A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house.

Fire truck with back end on fire drives really fast in circles.

I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.

At any minute, I am four minutes from a poncho.

Not being secure affects us as humans. It throws us off our balance. It puts us in disarray.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.

After 60, its just patch, patch, patch

The definition of adventure depends upon how boring your life is.

Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.

I love catching a snapshot of something that is just about to happen. Or maybe something that just happened, you know. But I like especially that just-before kind of feeling.

Charismatics have seen pictures of Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires praying and asking Protestant pastors to pray for him. His friendship towards the charismatic renewal is there.

Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.

I wanna buy a bunch of hermit crabs and make them live together.