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“Martial arts has just made me a better person. It's a way of life.”
“Martial arts have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.”
“Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.”
“Martial arts is for defense. It's not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.”
“Martial arts is like dance. It's so beautiful and what I love about the martial arts mostly is that what it basically says is you take their energy and you redirect it. Then if you need to, use it on them. That whole thing about redirecting energy I love.”
“Martial arts is not about fighting, it is about being fit and healthy, both physiologically and psychologically.”
“Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.”
“Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.”
“Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.”
“Martial arts is the kind of action that does tie in well to the supernatural.”
“Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.”
“Martial arts should be part of every girl's education.”
“Martial arts was something that I wanted to do for the rest of my life, and I wasn't getting what I needed from college. When I realized that I could fight for money and have it be part of my learning experience as a martial artist, it made perfect sense for me to dive into fighting.”
“Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.”
“Martial music has sudden and strongly marked transitions from one note to another which that style of music requires; while in that which is intended to move the softer passions, the notes imperceptibly melt into one another.”
Source: The discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Illustr. by explanatory notes & plates by John Burnet
“Martial sex is kinda like ordering a Civil War chess set through the mail. You get one piece every four to six weeks, you don't know what kind of shape that piece is gonna be in when you get it, but you still gotta pay the handling charges.”
“Martial (the main character of LOCUS SOLUS) has a very interesting conception of literary beauty: the work must contain nothing real, no observations about the world or the mind, nothing but completely imaginary constructions. These are in themselves ideas from an extrahuman world.”
“Martians are more solution oriented. If something is working, their motto is don't change it. Their instinct is to leave it alone if it is working. "Don't fix it unless it is broken" is a common expression.
When a woman tries to improve a man, he feels she is trying to fix him. He receives the message that he is broken. She doesn't realize her caring attempts to help him may humiliate him. She mistakenly thinks she is just helping him grow.”
Source: Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
“Martie was large, at least by Inuit standards, with skin the colour of an heirloom suitcase and a voice like a cartoon train wreck.”
“Martin [Campbell] is very energetic and precise. He'll on the set like four hours early with a flashlight and I thought, well, I'll certainly try to be very neat about my script like Martin, which I wasn't, but I'm not going to do that bit with the 4AM and the flashlight. I'd love to be able to say I was nervous, but I wasn't. The only time I ever had anxiety it turned out to be asthma.”
“Martin [Luther King] wasn't one to buck forces too much.”
“Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.”
“Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.”
Source: The Angel's Game
“Martin Bashir persuaded me to trust him, that his would be an honest and fair portrayal of my life and told me that he was the man that turned Dianas life around.”
“Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or another but against the distortion of a great yearning, 'the effort towards community.'”
Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s
“Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.”
“Martin Buber tells this tale: “Rabbi Mendel once boasted to his teacher Rabbi Elimelekh that evenings he saw the angel who rolls away the light before the darkness, and mornings the angel who rolls away the darkness before the light. ‘Yes,’ said Rabbi Elimelekh, ‘in my youth I saw that too. Later on you don’t see these things any more.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film.”
“Martin: Chíngas a tu madre...”
“Martin eyed the buffet table because he'd slept through dinner and was ravenous; but as luck would have it, who was standing next to the tower of cream cakes but Evelyn- looking equally delicious in a stunning, pale yellow gown of light diaphanous fabric that seemed to flutter around her legs on a nonexistent breeze.
And her bosom... Well, she looked delectable with pearls crisscrossing over her lush, alluring breasts.”
Source: Surrender to a Scoundrel
“Martin Freeman as [Bilbo] is just a revelation.”
“Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.”
“Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately.”
“Martin Hart: Can I ask you something? You're a Christian, yeah?
Rustin Cohle: No.
Martin Hart: Well, whadaya got the cross for, in your apartment?
Rustin Cohle: It's a form of meditation.
Martin Hart: How's that?
Rustin Cohle: I contemplate the moment in the garden; the idea of allowing your own crucifixion.”
“Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.”
“Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not.”
“Martin Jol has put his hands on his heads.”
“Martin Jol is literally a dead man walking”
“Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew.”
“Martin Lawrence had no filter, and to me that was the greatest half hour of all time. Martin was ahead of his time.”
“Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius.”
“Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.”
Source: Letter to a Christian Nation
“Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied, ... the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death.”
“Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became.”
Source: The Devil's Notebook
“Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.”
“Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.”
“Martin Luther King demeans his race and retards the advancement of his people.”
“Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'”
“Martin Luther King had a dream too,’ snaps Michael, ‘and look where that got him!”
Source: Finding Jesus