Ortwin Thyssen Quotes & Sayings

He gave her a smile that hit her like a slap to the face and a kiss on the mouth all at once. — Tiffany Reisz

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. — Catherine The Great

Feminism means finally that we renounce our obedience to the fathers and recognise that the world they have described is not the whole world. Masculine ideologies are the creation of masculine subjectivity; they are neither objective, nor value-free, nor inclusively "human." Feminism implies that we recognise for us, the distortion, of male-created ideologies, and that we proceed to think, and act, out of that recognition. — Adrienne Rich

The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for ... cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful. — B. Alan Wallace

If I had it to do over, I might have finished school first, then devoted all my time to StumbleUpon instead of dividing my time between the two. In the end, however, it was probably good to take the time I did. — Garrett Camp

I agree with you. Everyone gets lonely sometimes. — Alice Clayton

The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire ... The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality. — William Godwin

Love always deserves a chance. — Deanndra Hall

The distinction between a delusion and a lie is the very difference between a successful saint and a fraud. — Manu Joseph

The biggest mistake businesses make is advertising before they have become well known. — Jeffrey Gitomer

I mean to ask whether there is any way of avoiding the hostility expressed by the division say, of men into "us" (Westerners) and "they" (Orientals). For such divisions are generalities whose use historically and actually has been to press the importance of the distinction between some men and some other men, usually towards not especially admirable ends. — Edward W. Said