Edmund the Martyr Quotes

It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.

Edmund the Martyr

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• No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Matter
  • Street

• If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • British
  • Vegetable
  • Potato

• Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May
  • Reality
  • Professional

• A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

  

  Adam Draper
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Where

• When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Words

• I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.

  

  Patricia McCormick
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Light

• I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Stars
  • Noticed
  • Especially

• Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Want
  • Justice
  • Big

• I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Doubt

• People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Want
  • Telling

• You're filmed that one very special day of the pageant, and you want to make sure you're as ready to go as you can be.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Want
  • Day
  • Special

• All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Guitar
  • Construction

• I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Never
  • Early

• Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • May
  • History

• An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • World
  • Wall

• We need innovation and creativity.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Creativity
  • Innovation

• It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Together

• You have to abide by the regulations that the regulators insist on. This is not a philosophical divide - it's a fact of life.

  

  Blythe Masters
  • Life
  • Philosophical

• Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

  

  Jose Marti

• At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Business
  • Mother
  • Father

• People talk, 'Oh your father's a misogynist, look what he said about women,' like, on 'Howard Stern.' When he gets with Howard Stern, who's a friend of his, he'll joke around, because it's a comedy show. He's allowed to have a personality.

  

  Donald Trump, Jr.
  • People
  • Women
  • Father

• I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!

  

  Tony Blair
  • World
  • Modern
  • Arguing

• It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.

  

  Edmund the Martyr
  • Father
  • Devotion
  • Distraction