#par

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex? ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#deciding #divorced #gay #gay marriage #get

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties. ↗

— John Turner

#benefits #borrowers #creditors #debtors #favored

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#against #apartheid #beings #children #classification

I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#belief #believe #dealing #democrats #everything

Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was. ↗

— Ben Vereen

#direction #go #happen #least #life

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding. ↗

— Charles Vest

#between #came #clear #door #eroding

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself. ↗

— Linda Vester

#i #me #myself #parents #prove

I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It's fantastic to be invited; I'm so happy. To represent Team Germany together with Michael Schumacher is a great honor. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#always #champions #day #dreamed #every

It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#contrary #diverse #doubt #ends #had

My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you. ↗

— Karl Urban

#get #got #invest #job #lot