Nzemba Quotes & Sayings

He had come to us only three years earlier, but had already won general sympathy, mainly because he "knew how to bring society together." His house was never without guests, and it seemed he would have been unable to live without them. He had to have guests to dinner every day, even if only two, even if only one, but without guests he would not sit down to eat. He gave formal dinners, too, under all sorts of pretexts, sometimes even the most unexpected. The food he served, though not refined, was abundant, the cabbage pies were excellent, and the wines made up in quantity for what they lacked in quality. In the front room stood a billiard table, surrounded by quite decent furnishings; that is, there were even paintings of English racehorses in black frames on the walls, which, as everyone knows, constitute a necessary adornment of any billiard room in a bachelor's house. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Everybody, every American starts to have - needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to protect ourselves. — Wayne LaPierre

I've been lucky enough to be surrounded by close friends and family and they've definitely kept me grounded. — Taylor Lautner

I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis ball, eternally, and the one thing I want in the world is a tennis ball. — Annie Dillard

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. — Brooks Atkinson

People become like what they love. — St. Catherine Of Siena

Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us. — Margaret J. Wheatley

The door closed, and he was gone into the twilight of early evening like an afterthought. — Craig Johnson

In high school, I threw a party to get a guy's attention. I wanted him to think I was cool, so I let him and his friends DJ and basically take over the house. — Molly Tarlov