Ortenau Quotes & Sayings

The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness. — Mahatma Gandhi

The habit of learning to appreciate to the utmost every situation in life adds wonderfully to the sum total of one's happiness. But many people are incapable of real happiness because they never learn to appreciate anything except that which appeals to their own comfort, pleasure, or appetite. — Orison Swett Marden

always think in terms of category, not place. — Marie Kondo

A little extravagance can be defensible, so long as you buy the right things, appraising them for their payoff potential. Ask yourself 'can the object, in any way, be construed as a life investment?' by 'life investment' we mean something that will not only appreciate monetarily, but that will also a) save you money in the long-term, or b) grant you status, cultural enrichment, and/or intense pleasure. — Shelly Branch

You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me. — John Green

Very little could get Ty hotter faster than a hard cock between his lips, but it had taken Zane a few years to accept that the same might be true of him. This was one of Ty's favorite things to do. — Abigail Roux

Trust is a good way to get oneself killed — Lauren Kate

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now. — Tom Brokaw

A question I've thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love. — Gabrielle Zevin

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience. — Chuck Palahniuk

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western — Ang Lee

The most satisfying accomplishment for me was winning the British Open in 1996. But the most rewarding times were the times on the mini tours. — Tom Lehman

All she knew was that whatever and whoever climbed out of that abyss of despair and grief would not be the same person who had plummeted in. — Sarah J. Maas

Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality. — Sergei Diaghilev

Scars heal when you learn to FLY.
F(irst) L(ove) Y(ourself). — Shilpa Menon