Erlands Point Quotes & Sayings

places, and incidents — Emily March

No season now for calm, familiar talk. — Homer

I guess I have to prove myself all over again, even if it's to the world. I don't have a problem doing that. — Tionne Watkins

Don't spend your life collecting other peoples postcards — Syd Hair

You've got to kill your darlings. — Andre Dubus III

I write a lot because I don't talk much. If I don't write, I'll talk much. — Nurina Izzati

The man [Donald Trump] seems to out-trump himself - no pun intended - every time he speaks in his bid to win the Republican nomination. — Corri Wilson

Research is the highest form of adoration — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight? — Charles Baudelaire

1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought.
2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue.
3. Therefore, God is a being than which no being could be more virtuous.
4. But virtue involves overcoming pains and dangers.
5. Indeed, a being can only be properly said to be virtuous if it can suffer pain or be destroyed.
6. A God that can suffer pain or is destructible is not one than which no greater being can be thought.
7.For you can think of a greater being, that is, one that is nonsuffering and indestructible.
8. Therefore, God does not exist. — Douglas N. Walton

It would be nice to think that as I've got older times have changed, relationships have become more sophisticated, females less cruel, skins thicker, reactions sharper, instincts more developed. But there still seems to be an element of that evening in everything that happened to me since; all my other romantic stories seem to be a scrambled version of that first one. Of course, I have never had to take that long walk again, and my ears have not burned with quite the same fury, and I have never had to count the packs of cheap cigarettes in order to avoid mocking eyes and floods of tears ... not really, not actually, not as such. It just feels that way, sometimes. — Nick Hornby

Aren't you curious? When did it stop working? Why did it stop working? Did we bring out the worst in each other? Was it just one persons fault or both of us? Aren't these questions everyone wants to ask when they split up with someone? — Mike Gayle

If you are not lax when at leisure, you will be effective when busy. If you are not absentminded in tranquility, that will be useful in action. If you are not hypocritical in private, that will show up in public. — Zicheng Hong