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Quotes by South-african Authors
"I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!"
"There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous."
"Most people like normality because they feel safe and comfortable around it."
"I realized that marriage is not only about exchanging vows, but it's about two people who equally make a continuous effort to honour their vows."
"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career."
"In a materialistic society, there's no such a thing as a 'romantic' broke man."
"School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan."
"We are growing day by day as we are continuously striving for excellence in life."
"Although a little noisy at first, in a bizarre twist of fate, electronic music became popular in France in the 1890's before fizzling out in favor of Swing music " which somehow made an early appearance in the 1900's. In another alternative timeline, the Beatles never existed and England invented popcorn and hamburgers in the 1840's. Damn, that's what almost happened last time again, thought Scrooby tensely, while maneuvering himself onto a stronger looking branch. Details, everything was about the details. Sometimes there was almost too much detail to keep up with."
"I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
"You don't need to blow the trumpet when you accomplished something because your work, your action will speak itself."
"The dreams we dream today will be the light to the generation to come."
"This isn't a drill, sir!""What d'you mean this isn't a drill?" It couldn't be! It wasn't possible. Things like that only happen in blockbuster sci-fi movies, not in real life!"It's not a drill, sir! This is the real thing! You'd better get up here right away sir! Sir? Sir!"But Commander Ortez was already on his way -- and he was running.When he eventually made his theatrical entrance on the bridge, nothing had happened yet. He wheezed."Well?" He appealed, ready for anything. After that, this had better not be a drill. Or else."
"Authenticity is imperative, it brings forth respect,trust, love and confidence. This simply means you'll be respected, trusted, loved by many people and you'll be confident enough to take a first step towards your dreams. It also gives you independent thinking and understanding of things in general. Just be you, live original and you'll benefit great things from it."
"Be cautious of every motive behind any action, because not every smile is genuine; sometimes it's just a grin."
"When faced with trials, pray so that you cannot be the trial yourself."
"If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?"
"I'm hustling' is a low self-esteem having man's way of saying 'I'm unemployed,' when answering a seemingly materialistic woman's question as to what he does for a living."
"Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further."
"Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them."
"Worry is to human beings - what a condom is to a man with erectile dysfunction."
"When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true."
"As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again."
"Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours', as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that."
"We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects."
"Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves."
"I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really."
"Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country."
"The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law."
"If heaven really exists: then, technically, living is an activity that believers keep themselves busy with - while they wait for their death."
"Weekends are an employee's parole."
"Those who deny any group of people human rights are really denying the humanity of that group - and their own."
"The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply."
"It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish."
"Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again."
"How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper."
"I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another."
"Some kids also think it makes them coolWhen they pick on other kids, being cruel."
"Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor."
"Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are."
"A great mentor is full of understanding, trust, respect and willing to help his/her mentees to reach the right direction in life."
"For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too."
"Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit."
"Homophobia is the ignorant and arrogant assumption that copulation and reproduction is all there is to a relationship."
"The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again."
"If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country."
"Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing."
"You don't tell a boy that he is a boy. You simply act like a man."
"Some people's self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them."
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