J.P. Martin Quotes
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.
The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.
In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.
God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.
In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.
We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
If you can laugh at yourself, you are going to be fine. If you allow others to laugh with you, you will be great.
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.
The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.
I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.
If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'.
Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.
REGARDING THE MARCHING BAND: How much more interesting it would be to see a creeping band.
A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.
I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.
Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen
Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .
In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.
Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.
I didn't go around the world, I went around the world on a private jet. I didn't have a hotel room, we had an entire floor. We were spoiled.
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.
People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.
I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.