Nick Ortner Quotes

#1. Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

Julianna Margulies

#2. the nonphysical nature of cyberconflict has also made the private sector a combatant.

Alec J. Ross

#3. Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

James Russell Lowell

#4. As government grows beyond its constitutional boundaries, it really does devour freedom.

W. James Antle III

#5. Lady Gaga's fans are the worst,

Kelly Osbourne

#6. A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#7. Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.

Terry Tempest Williams

#8. They were two halves that together formed a magical whole.

Dick Button

#9. Under chronic stress, your body is more apt to enter a state of dis-ease. Unable to achieve its natural balance, it can't function the way it should. The ripple effects can be profound. And yet Western medicine has trained us to focus on symptomsrather than root causes like stress. Page 71

Nick Ortner

#10. Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.

James Nicoll

#11. I vanish westward
into smoke.

Geoff Page

#12. Our mind takes an inventory of past events and uses them to project the probability of success in the future. Depending on the information it gathers, we either move forward - or the
fear response is triggered and forward progress is circumvented. Page 48

Nick Ortner

#13. O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#14. We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.

Peter De Vries

#15. When we accept ourselves as we are, we aren't "settling" or "keeping the problem in place." We're showing love and compassion for ourselves-for our feelings, our situation, and our history.

Nick Ortner

#16. They seek the edges, because it is the edges that ultimately lead us. A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.

Laurie Beth Jones

#17. The cult of celebrity turned me off, and when the opportunities came along for me to play different characters, that's what I went for rather than the safe choices.

Dennis Christopher