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Quotes by South-african Authors
"A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings."
"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."
"As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred."
"People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped."
"It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing."
"Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn."
"The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work of your hands."
"What's much harder is taking on people in your own community."
"You will have to defy the odds, for you to be extraordinary."
"Some people do everything, some do something, many do nothing - which is bad enough - but the worst of the lot are those who break down what others have built."
"I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work."
"Since marriage is for two people, it is difficult to remain in it when one person steps out of it."
"It is very sad to see children live like orphans whilst their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents."
"The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played with silly putty like the other kids. The first time he lost his eyebrows he was only five."
"The only problem that ever really seems to bother empire builders is bureaucracy. Before a new colony on the frontier could be founded, the Senate and Triumvirate would have to pass the plan. Factors influencing the High Lords decision would include, among others, the number of people needed to found the colony and whether this would result in any significant population shift. Another, more critical factor would be whether Tactical Defense could spare the ships or the manpower to patrol the area."
"And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love."
"I came across few whites as a boy at Qunu. The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Occasionally, white travelers or policemen passed through our area. These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect."
"Isn't it strange that having a dick automatically makes you a man, but having a vagina isn't enough to make me a woman?"
"The weapon he held in his sweaty grip was one of a small consignment of prototypes received at the last port of call. The experts said it was the most powerful hand weapon in the known universe. He choked. That would soon be put to the test!"
"Education is what they equip you with, just in case your dream doesn't workout."
"The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term."
"It is impossible to have a public trial if you can't guarantee the safety of witnesses, judges or defense counsel."
"With the exception of a gun, starvation is the only thing that is capable of making an insane man lose his mind."
"I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African."
"The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!"
"Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another."
"What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?"
"To label someone as selfless is symptomatic of having bought the preposterous claim that a human being can have great concern for other human beings and little concern for themselves, or that, when taken to extremes, a human being can have great concern for other human beings and absolutely no concern for themselves."
"There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists."
"No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism."
"Even those who want to go to heaven would rather kill than be killed."
"To take away a man's sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants."
"I remember winning the first time, you know, suddenly everybody expects, well, okay, now he should win every time he tees it up, win six tournaments."
"Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?"
"I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy."
"I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks."
"We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."
"I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me."
"It always seems impossible until it's done."
"The dream giver [God] will remove mountains, He'll fill valleys, He'll straighten crocket ways for you to fulfil your dreams. And His timing is the best."
"It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand."
"It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones."
"This is not your standard "How to restore your VW Beetle book. It's also not a workshop manual. Aside from a basic rundown on the differences between various bug models through the years, there is a section on some things you can do to preserve your bug. Mostly however, what I've done is reviewed all the things I did to my bugsand put those ideas together as cheap, skillful, cheap, d.i.y, cheap means of enhancing your grocery getter's performance and handling."
"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."
"To plan and talk is good but to plan and take action is even greater."
"I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character."
"Poverty deprives humanity of the basic necessities to live a meaningful life."
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