Eugene J. Martin Quotes

Because of guilt there is painful diversion; because of greed there is playful diversion; because of grass there is pleasurable diversion.

Eugene J. Martin

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• It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Play
  • Characters

• If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.

  

  Larry King
  • Mind
  • Friend
  • Doubt

• I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • World
  • Real
  • Think

• In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Politics
  • Build

• When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Game

• My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Done
  • Father
  • Daily

• I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Love
  • Like
  • Fishing

• To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'

  

  Kal Penn
  • Walking
  • Say
  • Be Careful

• I look at the NFL and see how the transition has gone at quarterback. I might be coming along at a good time. For me personally, this is about doing the same thing I've been doing at USF - just smile, have fun, enjoy the experience, keep a positive attitude and encourage my teammates. I like to feed off the people around me.

  

  B. J. Daniels
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Conflict is the pursuit of truth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Truth
  • Conflict
  • Pursuit

• I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Years
  • Shy
  • Publicity

• Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Family
  • Home
  • Band

• I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Thinking

• I just can't stand it [jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Rock
  • Sound
  • Jazz

• So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another.

  

  Charles James
  • People
  • Mankind
  • Nationality

• Our consumer economy peddles the notions "romantic consumerism" of finding "the one," of being the one. It's the narcissistic enhancement of, "I'm the one you stopped your nomadic life for." It's one thing when you have sex for the first time when you marry, but it's another thing altogether when you stop having sex with others when you marry. So the marital commitment becomes, "I must be really special. With me, you no longer think you can find better next door." Romantic consumerism is thinking you can't find better, younger or newer.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Commitment
  • Economy
  • Special

• If I don't have anything to sacrifice, I don't have anything to gain. From the Bible I have learned if you want something good, you must sacrifice.

  

  Catherine Ndereba
  • Sacrifice
  • Gains

• North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Humanity
  • Cuba

• I was a huge movie watcher, but I really loved 'Kenan & Kel,' 'Rugrats,' 'Doug,' & 'Catdog.' I was also into drama films, though, and I really loved 'Poetic Justice' and 'Set it Off.'

  

  Raven Goodwin
  • Huge

• Because of guilt there is painful diversion; because of greed there is playful diversion; because of grass there is pleasurable diversion.

  

  Eugene J. Martin
  • Guilt
  • Grass
  • Diversion