Sheriff Ed Tom Bell Quotes

“Ninety percent of the time. It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.”

“People think they know what they want but they generally don’t. Sometimes if they’re lucky they’ll get it anyways. Me I was always lucky. My whole life. I wouldn’t be here otherwise.”

“I think it is more like what you are willin to become. And I think a man would have to put his soul at hazard. And I wont do that. I think now that maybe I never would.”

“He said I was bein hard on myself. Said it was a sign of old age.”

“What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why would you say anything? I’ve thought about it a good deal. But he wasn’t nothin’ compared to what was comin’ down the pike.”

“I believe that whatever you do in your life it will get back to you. If you live long enough it will. ”

“By the time you figured it out it would be too late”

“One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not ever’body is goin to get older with you.”

“The papers said it was a crime of passion and he told me there wasnt no passion to it. ”

“I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.”

“People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don’t deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things”