Ortner Center Quotes & Sayings

The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave. — Anne Sexton

Life is so short, so beautiful. Don't be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives. — Jack Ma

Before we even consider expanding Medicare, or another program based on its rates, we must reform our Medicare payment system so that it rewards value, not volume, and doesn't disadvantage states like Minnesota that provide high-quality care in an efficient way. — Amy Klobuchar

We have another chance to navigate, perhaps in a slightly different way than we did yesterday. We cannot go back. But we can learn. — Jeffrey R. Anderson

THE IMPULSE IS TO SQUEEZE AND
FONDLE BABY WILD ANIMALS
BUT THEN THEY'D BE BROKEN AND
WHAT GOOD WOULD THEY BE? — Jenny Holzer

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A great believer in precedent,' Della Street said. 'I think if he were ever confronted with a really novel situation he'd faint. He runs to his law books, digs around like a mole and finally comes up with case that's what he calls on all fours and was decided seventy-five or a hundred years ago. — Erle Stanley Gardner

You know what, man? I dont have time to worry about what people think. Im focused on the youth of America. Im focused on the kids who are dressing like whores. Because thats the message in the media. — Stephen Baldwin

I turned, ran, fired the shotgun into the air and shouted, "Bomb! There's a bomb in the fountain! Everybody run for your lives! Please don't not panic! — David Wong

You can kill a man but not a song when it's sung the whole world 'round. — Holly Near

Personal piety and formal worship are essential to the Christian life, but they must lead to lives that "act justly and love mercy" (Mic. 6:8). — Steve Corbett

When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror. — Lou Reed