Charles Martin quote: "When I find myself wondering what hell must be like, I'm reminded of the terminals in Atlanta. Thousands of people, most of whom don't know one another, crammed into a limited space, all in a hurry and trying desperately to get out."

If anything in the universe reflects the fingerprint of God, it is the human heart"...It derives no ...
CHARLES MARTIN

He picked up one of Lorna's roses and set it in my lap. "Here." I picked it up and smelled it. He po...
CHARLES MARTIN

What do you want in a woman, in life?'

I thought a moment...'The Rangers...we began to d...
CHARLES MARTIN

I'm not particularly interested in engaging in 12 debates, I think that's way too many. No doubt I w...
CHARLES MARTIN

There's far greater demand now in Kent County for housing than there is current supply and that has ...
CHARLES MARTIN

If my life were still a movie, this is the part that would end up on the cutting room floor. We were...
CHARLES MARTIN

Well...letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.
CHARLES MARTIN

if anything in this universe reflects the fingerprint of God, it is the human heart.
CHARLES MARTIN

Hope is not the result of medicine or anything that science has to offer. It is a flower that sprout...
CHARLES MARTIN

Puzzles forced me to look at something from several angles before I moved on, to look again, and aga...
CHARLES MARTIN

Emma once told me that some people spend their whole lives trying to outrun God, maybe get someplace...
CHARLES MARTIN

From out of your heart, you speak."
-Emma, When Crickets Cry
CHARLES MARTIN

...but maybe life is like that - you never know when something that's been hidden is going to rise u...
CHARLES MARTIN

Termite, you're young, and I'm not sure if you're going to understand what I'm about to say, but her...
CHARLES MARTIN

People marvel at the genius of Mozart because he supposedly wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" at...
CHARLES MARTIN

A lot of dead writers feed my mind with their ever-present whisperings. I
CHARLES MARTIN

The amazing thing about transplantation, aside from the fact that it worked, was that it allowed peo...
CHARLES MARTIN

But what I knew in my head stayed up there, swirling about the other ten zillion things I had retain...
CHARLES MARTIN

That which we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence.” At the time
CHARLES MARTIN

It was often what Charlie didn’t say that spoke the loudest.
CHARLES MARTIN

Augustine said it best: You stir man to take pleasure in praising You, because You have made us for ...
CHARLES MARTIN

Back home, I went to my closet and pulled out the old engineer’s transit case stored there. When w...
CHARLES MARTIN

How many times had I wanted to scream the same way? To purge myself and release the pain in my soul....
CHARLES MARTIN

I guess sometimes it's got to hurt before it can get better."
I nodded. "Hearts are like that.
CHARLES MARTIN

Sometimes I think that hell is two places: it's a place you end up, but it's also a place that you l...
CHARLES MARTIN

Annie, the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched; they must be ...
CHARLES MARTIN

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is t...
CHARLES MARTIN

A lot of dead writers feed my mind with their ever-present whisperings.
CHARLES MARTIN

On Sunday afternoons, instead of going to church, you're going to be out there knocking on doors. It...
CHARLES MARTIN

That process is lengthy and difficult and should be used only when other efforts have failed.
CHARLES MARTIN

You would create bad blood between City Council and the School Board.
CHARLES MARTIN

I don't know if I buy that.
CHARLES MARTIN

It doesn't matter how good or how bad they are, they gonna stay there. The houses are not much to st...
CHARLES MARTIN

The idea of pushing countries around isn't valid, it doesn't work. The U.S. has to produce products ...
CHARLES MARTIN

I just killed a kid.
CHARLES MARTIN

Debates don't ever solve anything. I doubt seriously that I can change anyone's minds about me throu...
CHARLES MARTIN

He thinks the sun comes up just to hear him crow.
CHARLES MARTIN

You rescued me when I thought nobody would. When I thought I wasn't worth the effort. You gave me ev...
CHARLES MARTIN

Gonna be a real frog-strangling turd-floater.
CHARLES MARTIN

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death...
MARTIN

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love ca...
MARTIN

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve.. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul gene...
MARTIN

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
MARTIN

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that ...
MARTIN SELIGMAN

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of t...
MARTIN SCORSESE

Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the soc...
MARTIN FILLER

We know what molecules are needed to sense light - what turns that signal that detects light into an...
MARTIN CHALFIE

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God'...
MARTIN LUTHER

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.
MARTIN SCORSESE

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
STEVE MARTIN

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this:...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Only a god can save us.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of cor...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former -...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Language is the house of the truth of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our syst...
MARTIN SCORSESE

My idea of a good night out is staying in.
MARTIN FREEMAN

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
STEVE MARTIN

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
STEVE MARTIN

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way ...
STEVE MARTIN

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
STEVE MARTIN

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easi...
STEVE MARTIN

What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an act...
STEVE MARTIN

Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, bec...
STEVE MARTIN

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
STEVE MARTIN

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.
STEVE MARTIN

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They ca...
STEVE MARTIN

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the ...
STEVE MARTIN

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in...
STEVE MARTIN

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent re...
STEVE MARTIN

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
STEVE MARTIN

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.
STEVE MARTIN

Well, excuuuuuse me!
STEVE MARTIN

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
STEVE MARTIN

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
STEVE MARTIN

It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it ...
MAX MARTIN

Nothing good ever comes of violence.
MARTIN LUTHER

What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in th...
WALTER MARTIN

Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gif...
WALTER MARTIN

I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremel...
WALTER MARTIN

I am not an enemy of Adventism.
WALTER MARTIN

The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
WALTER MARTIN

Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to ...
WALTER MARTIN

I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
WALTER MARTIN

Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe...
WALTER MARTIN

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
WALTER MARTIN

You see, 30 years ago I didn't have near the audience I have now. My tapes on the cults have rea...
WALTER MARTIN

The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separat...
WALTER MARTIN

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of Go...
WALTER MARTIN

Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same...
DEMETRI MARTIN

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.
DEMETRI MARTIN

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
STEVE MARTIN

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindnes...
MARTIN SCORSESE

Big money is made in the stock market by being on the right side of the major moves. The idea is to ...
MARTIN ZWEIG

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
MARTIN SCORSESE

My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big...
CATHERINE MARTIN

God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There sh...
MARTIN O'MALLEY

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than...
MARTIN LUTHER

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
MARTIN LUTHER

'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the fut...
MARTIN VILLENEUVE

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really w...
MARTIN PARR

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fictio...
MARTIN AMIS

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.
DEMETRI MARTIN

Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day,...
MARTIN CHEMNITZ

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can...
MARTIN SELIGMAN

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
MARTIN LUTHER

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't ...
MARTIN LUTHER

If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
MARTIN LUTHER

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it...
MARTIN LUTHER

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in expl...
MARTIN LUTHER

When schools flourish, all flourishes.
MARTIN LUTHER

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
MARTIN LUTHER

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
MARTIN LUTHER

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each...
MARTIN LUTHER

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
MARTIN LUTHER

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick a...
MARTIN LUTHER

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
MARTIN LUTHER

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...
MARTIN LUTHER

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
MARTIN LUTHER

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
MARTIN LUTHER

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justic...
MARTIN LUTHER

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous ...
MARTIN LUTHER

Forgiveness is God's command.
MARTIN LUTHER

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
MARTIN LUTHER

Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have...
MARTIN JACQUES

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.
MARTIN MCDONAGH

In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work i...
MARTIN PARR

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
MARTIN SCORSESE

In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq, few questioned the idea that t...
MARTIN JACQUES

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was b...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS

The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to...
MARTIN MCDONAGH

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
ANDREA MARTIN

I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is...
MARTIN SELIGMAN

We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long ...
MARTIN REES

For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose an...
MARTIN BASHIR

I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution...
MARTIN LUTHER

Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the...
MARTIN PARR

Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and c...
GEORGE MARTIN

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more l...
MARTIN SELIGMAN

Let me put it like this: I am not prepared to officiate over on behalf of the British government wha...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS

If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British go...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the ...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being rel...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS

We've always been able to get consistent work habits out of our kids. Not just during the year, but ...
AL MARTIN

That was some violent, violent weather. We're sitting in the clubhouse watching on TV and wondering,...
AL MARTIN

That was some violent, violent weather,
AL MARTIN

[In his column] FEMA Sends Katrina Survivors to American Gulag; Municipal Bond Holders at Risk, ... ...
AL MARTIN

I thought we played a very solid game on both sides of the ball. Getting those first two touchdowns ...
AL MARTIN

The 2006 budget crisis is looming, provoked by the fiscal policies of the Bush Cheney Regime, ... Th...
AL MARTIN

Pat's comments created a so-called 'flight to quality' bid in both the September long bonds and the ...
AL MARTIN

And, I really admire them. I guess we try to show them as much appreciation as possible.
AL MARTIN

I thought we set an early tone with our play on defense. Highland has some inexperience up front and...
AL MARTIN

We hung on. We knew coming here (Harrisburg) was flying high. We expected a tough game.
AL MARTIN

I think that what is happening now in terms of the Brexit vote does represent a serious undermining ...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS

I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that awa...
MARTIN COMPSTON

A lot of people don't like bumper stickers. I don't mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sti...
DEMETRI MARTIN

I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distra...
CHRIS MARTIN

I did some modeling here and there but nothing really big. There was a time when I simply bummed aro...
COCO MARTIN

Generally, a rising trend in rates is bearish for stocks; a falling trend is bullish.
MARTIN ZWEIG

One of the frustrating things for people who miss the first rally in a bull market is that they wait...
MARTIN ZWEIG

Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so somet...
DEMETRI MARTIN

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

They were like little palaces: all rococo or art deco. You'd walk in off those hot streets into ...
MARTIN LANDAU

It is Cameron's cabinet of millionaires who are the real spongers given free rein to live out th...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid ...
CHRIS MARTIN

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets ...
MARTIN MULL

'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a differe...
JUDITH MARTIN

Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate t...
MARTIN REES

Providing trails enhances the quality of life in the community and are a great asset to have. They p...
ALAN MARTIN

It does put a doctor or health-care clinic in a more vulnerable position. This was an important prov...
ALAN MARTIN

The state has reviewed the evidence and we are not aware at this time of there being any evidence to...
ALAN MARTIN

The cost will be borne by the bankruptcy estate. It is not completely clear how broad the scope will...
ALAN MARTIN

I think there is a real risk.
ALAN MARTIN

That is huge for affluent high earners who have a lot of debt.
ALAN MARTIN

I live on a farm in Dorset. The nearest neighbour is a quarter of a mile away. It's really quiet...
MARTIN CLUNES

We spent a few days up Ben Nevis, which is the biggest mountain in the U.K., and there was one day w...
MARTIN HENDERSON

If you blink, you will miss me, but I am in 'Malcolm X.'
MARTIN DONOVAN

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them o...
STEVE MARTIN

I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'Th...
STEVE MARTIN

Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!.
STEVE MARTIN

Problems are hidden opportunities, and constraints can actually boost creativity.
MARTIN VILLENEUVE

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marr...
MARTIN LUTHER

I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outsi...
DEMETRI MARTIN

When I find myself wondering what hell must be like, I'm reminded of the terminals in Atlanta. Thousands of people, most of whom don't know one another, crammed into a limited space, all in a hurry and trying desperately to get out.

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Charles Martin

When I find myself wondering what hell must be like, I'm reminded of the terminals in Atlanta. Thousands of people, most of whom don't know one another, crammed into a limited space, all in a hurry and trying desperately to get out.

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