Martin Sommers Quotes

What is the role of intellectuals in Europe? There's this debate in which all speakers do not appear to me to even be intellectuals. Why is Martin Sommers an intellectual? It is a political journalist who writes mediocre pieces. If that is sufficient to call yourself a 'European intellectual then the question of the debate has already become rhetorical. ~ Martijn Benders

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked.
'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire. ~ George R R Martin

You are as well prepared as any young Westerner could hope to be, equipped with good diet, lavish health insurance, two degrees, foreign travel and languages, orthodonture, psychotherapy, property, and capital; and your skin is a beautiful color. Look at you – look at the burnish of you. ~ Martin Amis

The gods play cruel jests, Jon thought. ~ George R R Martin

Privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the darkness all the gods were strangers. ~ George R R Martin

Men may plot and plan and scheme, but they had best pray as well, for no plan ever made by man has ever withstood the whims of the gods above. ~ George R R Martin

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

the man as asks the question must bear the answer. ~ George R R Martin

Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. It is an entirely "neighbor-regarding concern for others," which discovers the neighbor in every man it meets. Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both. If one loves an individual merely on account of his friendliness, he loves him for the sake of the benefits to be gained from the friendship, rather than for the friend's own sake. Consequently, the best way to assure oneself that love is disinterested is to have love for the enemy-neighbor from whom you can expect no good in return, but only hostility and persecution. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

If I give you two children films then come back and give you an adult film. I just love mixing it up and not being pegged into one specific thing. ~ Martin Lawrence

Nietzsche, who called alcohol and Christianity "the two great European narcotics," was not averse to the therapeutic use of cannabis. "To escape from unbearable pressure you need hashish," Nietzsche wrote. ~ Martin A. Lee

Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win ... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Theatre of the Absurd is a theatrical embodiment and manifestation of existentialism. It is part reality and part nightmare ~ Martin Esslin

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

A know-it-all is a person who knows everything except for how annoying he is. ~ Demetri Martin

and your enemies will melt away like snow." He shall be the stallion that mounts the world. Dany knew how it went with prophecies. They were made of words, and words were wind. There would be no son for Loraq, no heir to unite dragon and harpy. When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, when the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. Only then would her womb quicken ~ George R R Martin

Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it. ~ Martin Gardner

You know, I wouldn't have done this a month ago. I wouldn't have done it then. Then I was avoiding. Now I'm just waiting. Things happen to me. They do. They have to go ahead and happen. You watch – you wait… Things still happen here and something is waiting to happen to me. I can tell. Recently my life feels like a bloodcurdling joke. Recently my life has taken on *form* Something is waiting. I am waiting. Soon, it will stop waiting – any day now. Awful things can happen any time. This is the awful thing. ~ Martin Amis

Tyrion: My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark.
Bronn: I hear he was taller.
Tyrion: Not after Joff took off his head. ~ George R R Martin

See, there are happily ever afters. Even for assholes like me. ~ Lex Martin

Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's about freeing your mind and making you think a different way. ~ Steve Martin

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers. ~ George R R Martin

I watched a lot of the James Bond movies, certainly, both the old ones and the reboot with Daniel Craig. I watched a lot of the Matt Helm films with Dean Martin, which just have these great car scenes where it's rear-projected, and they just start making martinis out of a bar in the glove compartment. ~ Adam Reed

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies. ~ Demetri Martin

You'll never avoid every mistake. All you can do is try to do your best and live with the consequences. ~ K. Martin Beckner

I'd like to focus on my life on creating new medicines for people who are suffering from rare disease. ~ Martin Shkreli

Oh, the foghorns ... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect. It's an actual piece of music. If you listen to what's going on after he has a flashback about his wife you'll hear ... it sounds like the humpback whales in a way. But it's all music. And we use it again later, too. ~ Martin Scorsese

Few practices are as odious as commenting-out code. Don't do this! ~ Robert C. Martin