Ed Parker Quotes

I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.

We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.

Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

It is that word 'hunny,' my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader fwowed up.

It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

The digital and physical worlds are starting to come together more seamlessly - it's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's coming.

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most.

Don't look at me in that tone of voice.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

The humble man makes room for progress; the proud man believes he is already there.

Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.

You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.

Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.

Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.

Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.

You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.

If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

Imitation is for shirkers, like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers, unifying for the creators.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Writing well is the best revenge.

One becomes great when he comes to the realization that what he knows is very little.

Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.

The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen.

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

He who hesitates, meditates horizontally

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

Whether it is a big ship or small ship, the same size hole placed correctly in the hull can sink it.

We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they teach, and who can communicate with kids.

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot.

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

The first thing you must do is forget that I'm Black. Second, you must never forget that I'm Black.

To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe.