Erler Family Quotes & Sayings

It's so good to be loved by someone who knows how to live with the flaws. Who knows not to expect the world from you and how to be grateful for what you can give. And who knows that, like the people who give it, love is not perfect. — Nicole Green

Modern redistribution is built around a logic of rights and a principle of equal access to a certain number of goods deemed to be fundamental. — Thomas Piketty

When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women. — Lael Brainard

eyes cannot see what the mind does not know. — John Burley

Hand, nobody told me about the weight. Why didn't our parents tell us about the weight?
- What weight?
- The fucking weight, Hand. How does the woman Ingres live? The one from Marrakesh? If we're vessels, and we are, then we, you and I, are overfull, and that means she's at the bottom of a deep cold lake. How can she stand the hissing of all that water?
- We are not vessels; we are missiles.
- We're static and we're empty. We are overfull and leaden.
- We are airtight and we are missiles and all-powerful. — Dave Eggers

To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy. — Jane Jacobs

That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel - a novel journal has to be manipulated so someone reading it can have enough comprehension, which means the person writing it would've had to have a sense of a someday-audience. — Cris Mazza

Life isn't made of miracles, roses and cotton fucking candy, Lea. — Christine Zolendz

The pain when you fail is not to convince you to stop, but to be overcome so you can find success there and move on. — A.M. Sawyer

Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it. — Sorin Cerin

Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea. — Julia Roberts

Faces are tricky unless you can connect up when and where you'd seen them. — Agatha Christie

Your plan was unworkable then and useless now ... Like da Vinci's flying machine plans ... — William S. Burroughs

It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting ... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction ... It is a system which can also in some measure, even compensate for the lack of emotional fulfilment in human relationships ... — Mervyn Levy

If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for? — Lisa Kleypas