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Quotes by South-african Authors
"Life is Worth Living: 10 Life PossibilitiesWhere there is a breathing there is a breakthroughWhere there is pain there is a planWhere there is someone there is somethingWhere there is a price there is a provisionWhere there is peace there is a possibilityWhere there is hunger there is humblenessWhere there is thirst there is thoughtfulnessWhere there is rest there is restorationWhere there is faith there is a foundationWhere there is life there is a living."
"But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world."
"I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour."
"You will have to defy the odds, for you to be extraordinary."
"Moments later, Sona Kilroy, heading for the open doorway, stepped over the sergeant's body. With an old auto-rifle in his left hand and his favorite sword in the other, and the sharp melodic din of bolts and bullets ringing in his ears, 'the Hammer' grinned an evil grin to himself, well pleased. He wished he could've seen the look on the face of Indomitable's captain when he realized the tables had just been turned on him! The thought amused him. It was bloody hilarious. He cackled, reveling in this complete reversal of fortune. Then he stalked onward with conviction, a grim smile on his lips " intent on taking the ship for himself."
"Poverty deprives humanity of the basic necessities to live a meaningful life."
"I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."
"Every time you hurt my heart, you are actually making it stronger."
"I do not think that condemning people who murder and killing them necessarily sends out the right message."
"For their holidays: the rich's kids travel the world, the poor's kids roam around their grandparents' yard."
"Do not distance yourself from the people who need you most today, because tomorrow you will need them the most."
"Sure. And you say hi to Dory, 'k? C'mon Will " let's get you to the Sheriff. I need a cold one."Yippee. Said Will, not exactly brimming over with enthusiasm.Timaset Skooch reached across the table and packed the notes together. He counted them out too. Seven thousand credits! Then he scooped the coins and the (ugh) gold tooth into an empty glass for the waitress. Seven thousand credits! But what was the plastic slip under it all?"
"When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them."
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
"Joe! he groaned, attempting to speak clearly. "Joe! Good ol' Joe!"Captain, you're drunk! Lofflin said, stating the obvious while trying to keep his voice level. Blaine grinned at him lopsidedly and giggled, almost choking. He slapped the table, knocking his empty glass over."Ye-ss, I am! Don't ssup-pose you " think I co-uld ssit here an' calmly wait t'die " dA1?2ou? Weee-ll, not ssob-er anyway. Ha ha ha.Disgust and hopelessness were swelling inside him. He felt like punching that drunken face till it was either sober or unconscious."Damn it, Captain! We need you " the crew needs you! You're turning your back on them " in our most desperate time!"
"We need to respond to the mood of the people - that we must take the lives of the other side as well."
"Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being."
"So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better."
"I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his Captain, and he felt if his Captain could do it, then so could he, and that to me was when it really struck home."
"We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue."
"If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels."
"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."
"Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell."
"I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do."
"The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed."
"You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman."
"Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED."
"Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality--all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are."
"The beauty of words that heals my soul."
"And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination."
"When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"....but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart"Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom."
"My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves."
"Every right decision you create opens a wide gate to your destiny."
"So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore."
"Light-years away, another starship was also experiencing problems, though perhaps not as severe. The I.S.S. Antares was not a new ship either. Many older ships in the imperial space fleet reaching retirement age were being refitted with more modern equipment to extend their useful lives. Thus, technologically at least, Antares was currently one of the most advanced ships of the Imperial Space Fleet. Unfortunately, she was now also one of the most troubled. This is what the Phoenix refitting program had done to the Antares."
"There is nothing wrong to be angry because anger is the part of our natural being. But we should avoid to dwell on it because it could lead to resentment which is not good for anyone, we just have to control it before it control us. As the bible says, 'In your anger do not sin.' 'Do not let the sun go down while you still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold."
"I've learned something peculiar in my life, every time rejection comes on my way; my break through shows up. Now I'm sort of enjoying rejection, so bring it on, I'm ready to celebrate my break through and I'm grateful to those who reject me."
"But not all kids are exactly the same,Even when they share the same name."
"Being a single mother should not stop you from helping your children to reach their full potential."
"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."
"In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear."
"Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people's humanity " but they can put out the correct, factual, scientifically and medically accurate information in an attempt to counter the ignorance and to restore the balance."
"Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over."
"I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it."
"Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted."
"The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge."
"It is the best investment to make an impact on others, because even when you're dead money alone will not bury you."
"Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you."
"Some women would not have contracted an STD or STDs had they not been on the pill."
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