Property Renting 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

Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in an attempt to shape American society in politically pleasing ways, people have been coerced into liking, hiring or renting against their will or better judgment. — Ilana Mercer

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. — W.E.B. Du Bois

If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport ... it's fun! — Jesse Harris

If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota) — Johannes Gouws

I wanna roll it, roll it, roll it, roll it. Is all I wanna do, for you baby. Girl, it's something kind of sexy. Goin' on about you babe. — R. Kelly

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty. — Megan Chance

Could you get O positive this time? That's my favorite. — Heather Brewer

Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protections for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a similar legal laxity that would allow foreign film technicians, screenwriters, and actors to flood southern California to work in their industry for a fourth of their own pay. — Victor Davis Hanson

He sat down, his eyes locked on hers. Although his gaze did stray to her lips, if he was honest with himself, and he did think about kissing her. But then he locked on to her eyes again. She — Melanie Dickerson

My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to. — Wendelin Van Draanen

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama. — Lorna Luft

There are four rules for miraculous work creation: Be positive. Send love. Have fun. Kick ass.
Amen. — Marianne Williamson

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended. — N.K. Jemisin

Sometimes when you hold on too loosely, it's as if you aren't holding on at all. — Layla M. Wier

Like when people (my parents) ask what I'm going to study in college and I say, "English." They say, "Oh. So you want to be a teacher?" And I want to cover my eyes and mouth with duct tape and pretend to be dead and done with it. No, you simpletons. I want to travel and write and live in a big city, and do cool things with my brain. This is not to disparage the fine and noble art of educating in any way. My English teachers have made me who I am today and I love them with a passion that surprises me. I just don't want to be one. — Arlaina Tibensky

I like to sing when I have works to do - it does so help. — Opal Whiteley