Notest Quotes & Sayings

That's quite gallant of you. After you've ignored me for the better part of a week, like a boy half your age with twice your charm. — Renee Ahdieh

Perseverance is demonstrated by those who keep going when the going gets tough, who don't give up even when others say, It can't be done. — James E. Faust

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. — Sargent Shriver

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived. — Charles Darwin

I lay my hand over his and give it an empathetic squeeze. "I know what it's like to be damaged."
Brad raises his eyes to mine. "I don't know, Gabby. We're all damaged, right? It's what we make of the wreckage that matters. — Beth Michele

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Impression is a great phenomenon in itself: as a man thinketh so is he. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

As a boy I slept in a meadow one night. It was summer and the sky was very clear. Before I fell asleep I saw Orion on the horizon, standing above the woods. Then I woke up in the middle of the night - and suddenly Orion was standing high above me. I have never forgotten that. I had learned that the earth is a planet and rotates; but I had learned it as one learns something from books and does not quite realize. But now, for the first time I felt that it really was like that. I felt that the earth was silently flying through the immensities of space. I felt it so strongly that I almost believed I had to hold onto something in order not to be hurled off. Probably it happened because, emerging from a deep sleep and bereft for a moment of memory and habit, I looked into the huge, displaced sky. Suddenly the earth was no longer firm - and since then it has never become wholly firm again - " He — Erich Maria Remarque

My journey, however, has followed a far less predictable story: stalled chapters, unexpected plot twists, and dozens of rewrites that have left the ending more than a little uncertain. — Mandy Hale

When will the death
Of Death ever come?
from The Siege — Visar Zhiti

God is being taken out of schools; children are not being raised in church learning the word; many parents are living lives unto themselves, exalting substance rather than Jesus Christ, and those looking for answers are going to church and finding the word is not being preached. There are consequences to these decisions. — Monica Johnson

Politics is ethics writ large. — Brent Weeks

Memory produces hope in the same way that amnesia produces despair,' the theologian Walter Brueggeman noted. It's an extraordinary statement, one that reminds us that though hope is about the future, ground for hope lie in the records and recollections of the past. We can tell of a past that was nothing but defeats and cruelties and injustices, or of a past that was some lovely golden age now irretrievably lost, or we can tell a more complicated and accurate story, one that has room for the best and worst, for atrocities and liberations, for grief and jubiliation. — Rebecca Solnit

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all. — Oscar Wilde

We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world ... We adjust to change. — Dan Rather