Novotni Scholarship Quotes & Sayings

Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families ... Defendants have presented no evidence of any such effect. Indeed, they cannot even explain the manner in which, as they predict, children of opposite-sex couples will be harmed. Their other contentions are equally without merit. — Stephen Reinhardt

God has not promised Skies always blue, Flower-strewn pathways All our life through; God has not promised Sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, Peace without pain. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Look those tough and hard decisions in the face and make them; keep making them until you are confident in what you see. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal? — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities. Take — Timothy Ferriss

We are accustomed to believe that our world was created by God speaking the Word; but I ask, may it not rather be that he wrote it, wrote a Word so long we have yet to come to the end of it? May it not be that God continually writes the world, the world and all that is in it? — J.M. Coetzee

Friends have disagreements sometimes but they don't dwell on the disagreement, they always find a way to dismantle the tension and move on. — Euginia Herlihy

The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one series is over; you're going to go and find something else. — Eoin Colfer

Not even a mighty warrior can brake a frail arrow when it is multiplied and supported by its fellows. As long as you brothers support one another and render assistance to one another, your enemies can never gain the victory over you. But if you fall away from each other your enemy can brake you like frail arrows, one at a time. — Genghis Khan

I'm trying to help you."
"I don't know what you're doing, but I'm sure there are laws about it! — G.A. Aiken

The roof of Pluto's shrine, which was covered with bones and diamonds. As far as Hazel knew, the bones had always been there. The diamonds were her fault. If she sat anywhere too long, or just got anxious, they started popping up all around her like mushrooms after a rain. Several million dollars' worth of stones glittered on the roof, — Rick Riordan

Life's messy," he agreed. "But sometimes amazing things can happen, even when it seems like it's all falling apart. — Lisa Brown Roberts

In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast. — Mark Edmundson