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Quotes by South-african Authors
"And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important."
"Don't expect too much from people who don't even have respect for themselves."
"I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way."
"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity."
"Courting is an activity where a man and a woman flaunt their virtues. Dating is an activity where life exposes the other's vices."
"It is also aimed at experienced human rights activists who are looking for a handy collection of facts to use in any confrontations online " or in real life."
"I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about."
"I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are."
"Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish."
"Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time."
"I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them."
"He with the cleanest clothes isn't necessarily the cleanest."
"A belief is an uneducated guess."
"When you are suffering from sexual starvation, a spank or even a hug seems like a porn scene."
"I am not lucky, but I am favoured because luck runs out; but God's favour will abide with me forever."
"As a panting Tracy Ferris scrambled into the life-pod, this thought was precisely what was running through her already agitated mind. From the very beginning of their association, she'd had a bad feeling about Brandon Carver. Something about that guy just never seemed to fit. Sure, he was good looking " but so were many of the other out of work space bums hitch-hiking from place to place she'd also had the misfortune to meet."
"Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them."
"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."
"I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films."
"The facts are always less than what really happened."
"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."
"And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do."
"This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else."
"There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice."
"Life is worthwhile when you walk on a path aligned to your purpose."
"Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member."
"Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person."
"Unrequited love is a billion times less intolerable than unrequited hate."
"I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man."
"School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee."
"In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face."
"It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs."
"Prayer and fasting is what every Christian needs because prayer empowers you while fasting humbles you to be a better child of God."
"And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that."
"An educated woman is seen as a human being with a vagina. An uneducated woman is seen as a vagina with a human being."
"Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude."
"Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing."
"The small launch bay was littered with debris. A powerful breeze tore at his black silk shirt as Kilroy made his way across it to the waiting shuttle, evoking a feeling like the fingers of fate were caressing his body. "The Hammer stepped over the body of one of his fallen crew without a trace of care or concern. The air was rushing past him, like a wind, out into space through the wounds in the side of his ship. Fatigued and desperate, the Hammer was running out of options. His ship was a mess, holed in a dozen places, the life support systems failing. Weakened hull sections were collapsing in pressure bursts. The vibrations that shook the deck beneath him now were not from the engines that once drove her forward, but now from the explosions down below, tearing her apart."
"To be a prosperous pastor one needs: (1) a bible (2) a tailored suit, and (3) a few psychology books."
"I'm happy for people who want to get married. It's not my thing."
"Apathy.The reason you may wake up one day being not only a 2nd class citizen, but a criminal because of who you are - and then wonder why 'somebody' didn't do something when there was still time?"
"It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach."
"Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs."
"It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited."
"Everyone of us has a high mountain to climb and a deep valley to level but the only thing makes us different to each other is the way we deal with these obstacles."
"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements."
"Now I don't know how many people like to drive a Beetle at that kind of speed (on purpose) but I know I'd rather go down Brickmaker's Kloof on a bicycle with no brakes! Driving any car at that speed in anything other than an expensive German luxury car on a long, straight autobahn is enough of a risk (let alone the risk of hitting anything) " but if you try that with a Beetle and add a light crosswind, factor in some rubber peeling off your tire, and you'll more than likely find yourself dancing alone in a dark corner without any music."
"Some mommies and daddies find it hard to acceptKids who are different to the normal set."
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