Martiens Quotes & Sayings

The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people. — Ban Ki-moon

Lake water, even when boiled, has an effect on my digestive system similar to the movement of a hangman's trapdoor. — Fennel Hudson

If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others. — Morgan Freeman

What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual and effective principles and values. This is what is known in the cliche as the "veneer" of civilization. — Kenny Smith

His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it passes through the cabin, through the wreck; washing the cliffs and shores of the island, it runs northward and southward to the ends of the earth. Soft and cold, dark and unending, it beats against my eyelids, against the skin of my face. — J.M. Coetzee

war, the human antithesis of art — Campbell McGrath

If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem. — William Carlos Williams

The bigger the bad guy, the bigger the obstacles that are thrown in your path, the bigger the reward for you. Do — Michael Samuels

When restaurants start to mature - and usually the five-year time is the time when the restaurant starts to settle in and have its own personality - your job is to grow it. — Michael Mina

Warm lips met her shoulder where he placed a light kiss. "Doona be afraid of me. I'll always protect you."
Kinsey moved back against him, allowing her shoulder to rub against his bare chest. Heat radiated from him, cocooning her in everything Ryder. — Donna Grant

Beauty is something everybody longs for, needs, and tries to obtain in some way - whether through nature, or a man or a woman, or music, or whatever. The soul yearns for it. Psychology seems to have forgotten that. — James Hillman

I think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History suggests we should not panic nor be too sanguine about cool new gizmos. There's a delicate balance. — James Gleick

We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise. — Terry Hands

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn. — T. S. Eliot

He shouted her name again, and in his mind he saw Chuck, falling to the ground, covered in blood, and Newt's bulging eyes. Three of the closest friends he'd ever had. And WICKED had taken them all away from him. — James Dashner