Martin Eden Quotes

I tended to fall in love with characters in books. Most guys I went to school with were far too interested in sports or video games. How could they hold a candle to Mister Darcy's intensity, Tom Joad's ethics, Martin Eden's passion, Caleb Trask's struggle for goodness, or Edmond Dantes' cunning intellect? ~ Trisha Haddad

Why didn't you dare it before? he asked harshly.
When I hadn't a job? When I was starving? When I was just as I am now, as a man, as an artist, the same Martin Eden? That's the question. I've been asking myself for many a day. My brain is the same old brain. And what is puzzling me is why they want me now. Surely they don't want me for myself, for myself the same olf self they did not want. They must want me for something else, for something that is outside of me, for something that is not I. Shall I tell you what that something is? It is for the recognition I have recieved. That recognition is not I. Then again for the money I have earned and am earnin. But money is not I. And is it for the recognition and money, that you now want me? ~ Jack London

Despite the rise of the mental health profession, people are becoming increasingly vulnerable to depression. Why? Martin Seligman, a brilliant psychologist with no religious ax to grind, has a theory that it's because we have replaced church, faith, and community with a tiny little unit that cannot bear the weight of meaning. That's the self. We're all about the self. We revolve our lives around ourselves. ~ John Ortberg

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters. ~ George R R Martin

Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial. ~ Martin Van Buren

When we brand things, our brains perceive them as more special and valuable than they actually are. ~ Martin Lindstrom

Bowling would be more interesting if it were slightly uphill. ~ Demetri Martin

The crow calls the raven black. ~ George R R Martin

Underneath his steal and wool and boiled leather, Jaime Lannister was a tapestry of cuts and scabs and bruises. ~ George R R Martin

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

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry. - Martin Harris ~ L.M. Montgomery

And when you feel the heat, the world is at your feet. ~ Ricky Martin

All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed. Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally 'in the red.' We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tell me where do whores go? ~ George R R Martin

We should die relying on grace alone ~ Martin Luther

As he reads, his eyes graze each poem's lines like a needle over an LP's grooves, reassembling them into uniform arcades. What he is looking for is key: a gap in the book's mask, a loose thread to unravel its veil. He tries tricks to find new openings- reading sideways, reading upside down, reading white space instead of text- but the words always close ranks like tiles in a mosaic, like crooks in a lineup, and mock him with their blithe expressions. ~ Martin Seay

What the world needs now are signposts of what's ahead, markers for the new world just around the corner. The world does not need heroes; the world does not need more messiah complexes. The world does not need Christians who want to ride in on a white horse to save the day. What the world needs are witnesses. Nothing more and nothing less. The earth needs people who can bear witness to the ways in which the world has already changed through the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. ~ Jonathan Martin

He was unshakably determined to demand of anyone or anything that wanted to force him to live, whoever and whatever they might be - his grandfather, fate, hell - the restitution of his lost Eden.
He did not hide the obstacles from himself. ~ Victor Hugo

The only monster you need to worry about in this life is the one that stares at you from the mirror each morning. You tame him, make friends with him, and the rest of life is nothing you can't handle. ~ Charles Martin

It´s amazing how quickly life can take things from you-and astounding the swiftness with which its gifts arrive too. ~ C.K. Kelly Martin

When Europe dominated, there were no or few feedback loops. Or, to put it another way, there were few, if any, consequences for its behaviour towards the non-western world: relations were simply too unequal. ~ Martin Jacques

Whatever else a TODO might be, it is not an excuse to leave bad code in the system. ~ Robert C. Martin

It has everything to do with your world view- your basic set of beleifs and whether or not those beliefs include God. ~ Joe Martin

I like "Rock, Paper, Scissors Two-Thirds." You know. "Rock breaks scissors." "These scissors are bent. They're destroyed. I can't cut stuff. So I lose." "Scissors cuts paper." "These are strips. This is not even paper. It's gonna take me forever to put this back together." "Paper covers rock." "Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks." There should be "Rock, Dynamite with a Cutable Wick, Scissors." ~ Demetri Martin

I have to rub my eyes and read the captions again. They're still there. The Elector has freed Eden. ~ Marie Lu

My goal is not to eliminate jobs but to secure jobs by increasing production volume. ~ Martin Winterkorn

I am glad I will be leaving Italy. It costs too much to lover her.[The emigrant's lament] ~ Maria Martin

It's pretty much what a lot of committed Catholics are making of [Pope Francis]. They're thrilled, they're refreshed, they think it's a breath of fresh air. ~ Ralph Martin

When a person is dying inside, she doesn't need a jester." Biddy set the bandages in his hands. "She needs a champion. ~ Sarah M. Eden

"I criticize America because I love her. I want her to stand as a moral example to the world." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

(Mutt, a mentally ill brother who is setting fire to a load of expensive things from the house he grew up in and was physically abused and neglected in)
"Tuck (mutt's brother is being asked), aren't you going to stop him?"
'Why?'
'Well' - she waved her hand across the house - 'couldn't you two do something good with all this?" ...
"Yeah, but the money we earned wouldn't buy as much therapy as that fire ... ~ Charles Martin

I actually like it. It does everything I want a word processing program to do, and it doesn't do anything else. I don't want any help. I hate some of these modern systems where you type a lower case letter and it becomes a capital letter. I don't want a capital. If I wanted a capital, I would have typed a capital. I know how to work the shift key. ~ George R R Martin