Niecy Nash Book Quotes & Sayings

Endeavoring to live the Christian life by your own efforts is the greatest single hindrance to walking in the Spirit. — Derek Prince

All this is probably for nothing,' she [her mother] said once we'd hatched the plan. 'Most likely I'll flunk out anyway.' To prepare, she shadowed me during the last months of my senior year of high school, doing all the homework that I was assigned, honing her skills. She replicated my worksheets, wrote the same papers I had to write, read every one of the books. I graded her work, using my teacher's marks as a guide. I judged her a shaky student at best.
She went to college and earned straight As — Cheryl Strayed

I kind of hate Nick right now, too, but there's someone else higher on my list, someone I hate more than Saddam Hussein and any asshole named Bush combined, hate more than that fuckhead who canceled 'My So-Called Life' and left me with a too-small boxed DVD set that does not answer the questions whether Angela and Jordan Catalano did it, or if Patty and Graham got a divorce, or if there really was something to all that lesbian subtext between Rayanne and Sharon. — Rachel Cohn

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self. — Baruch Spinoza

A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

We had a really fun time working together on the film. With myself as a pirate. And she as a fair maiden. Running off together in the spirit of love and adventure. — Cary Elwes

Christ had a specific evangelizing goal in mind when he prayed at the Last Supper that all his disciples 'be one ... 'The Church's evangelizing mission, therefore, moves along the path of ecumenism, the path of unity of faith, of evangelical witness and authentic fraternity. — Pope Benedict XVI

The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it. — Bob Dole

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive. — Robert Redford

If you listen carefully, you can hear these things. If you look carefully, you'll see what you're after — Haruki Murakami