Nattendez Quotes & Sayings

The Hinkstons expected more of their landlord for the money they were paying her. Rent was their biggest expense by far, and they wanted a decent and functional home in return. They wanted things to be fixed when they broke. But if Sherrena wasn't going to repair her own property, neither were they. The house failed the tenants, and the tenants failed the house. — Matthew Desmond

Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls. — Timothy B. Tyson

I was held for a few moments in the coherence and safety of the life we had, when so much seemed predictable. — Sonali Deraniyagala

If you asked me to fly to the moon and bring it back to you, I'd find a way — Abbi Glines

I didn't go in to make friends or not make friends. — Michelle Visage

It was that period in the vernal quarter when we may suppose the Dryads to be waking for the season. The vegetable world begins to move and swell and the saps to rise, till in the completest silence of lone gardens and trackless plantations, where everything seems helpless and still after the bond and slavery of frost, there are bustlings, strainings, united thrusts, and pulls-all-together, in comparison with which the powerful tugs of cranes and pulleys in a noisy city are but pigmy efforts. — Thomas Hardy

I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced — Joseph Conrad

But there seems to be little correlation between a man's effectiveness and his intelligence, his imagination or his knowledge. — Peter F. Drucker

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop. — Rick Perlstein

I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones. — Teju Cole

Money, celebrity and power can be very intoxicating. — Corey Hart

Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something. — Salvatore Scibona

People who knew themselves, got the right answer. — Innasafa

If we would find God amid all the religious externals we must first determine to find Him, and then proceed in the way of simplicity. Now as always God discovers Himself to "babes" and hides Himself in thick darkness from the wise and the prudent. We must simplify our approach to Him. We must strip down to essentials (and they will be found to be blessedly few). We must put away all effort to impress, and come with the guileless candor of childhood. If we do this, without doubt God will quickly respond. — A.W. Tozer

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children. — George Shearing