Erpelding Family Quotes & Sayings

The two most dangerous things in the world are rich people and crazy people. The Roanokes are rich like pharoahs and crazier'n a snake-fucking baby. — Warren Ellis

We humans are unhappy in large part because we are insatiable; after working hard to get what we want, we routinely lose interest in the object of our desire. Rather than feeling satisfied, we feel a bit bored, and in response to this boredom, we go on to form new, even grander desires. — William B. Irvine

Where'd you find her?
He picked me out of a catalog. — Megan Hart

STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say. — Joseph Simmons

The world asks, How much does he give? Christ asks why does he give? — John Mott

It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true. — George Bernard Shaw

Build it and they will come' is one of the most idiotic ideas conceived by man. — B.C. Chase

Why does it often take extreme life situations to bring back an awareness of the magic and mystery of life? Why do we often wait until we're about to die before discovering a deep gratitude for life as it is? Why do we exhaust ourselves seeking love, acceptance, fame, success, or spiritual enlightenment in the future? Why do we work or meditate ourselves into the grave? Why do we postpone life? Why do we hold back from it? What are we looking for exactly? What are we waiting for? What are we afraid of? Will the life we long for really come in the future? Or is it always closer than that? — Jeff Foster

In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball. — Nelson Rodrigues

I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I entered my teens, I got more into horror and science fiction and wrote a lot of short stories. A literary education complicated things and for many years I wrote nothing but poetry. Then I got back to story-telling. — Peter Robinson

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius
I know it too well to blush behind it. — Thomas Wolfe

Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind. — Peter Atkins

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future. — Will Self

I still think we ought to just hire the town and take it with us. Then we'd have a good barkeep and someone to play the pianer. — Larry McMurtry