Quotes by South African Authors - Page 18

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Everyone dies, but does everyone really live?
Johan Coetzer
Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
if Jesus had stooped to play politics he might have become a key man in Roman Judea, a big operator. It was because he was indifferent to politics, and made his indifference clear, that he was liquidated. How to live one's life outside politics, and one's death too: that was the example he set for his followers.
J.M. Coetzee
If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Oh! Lord should I forget anything, never let me forget that without you I am nothing.
Gift Gugu Mona
I waste every breathe of my life trying to be the best nobody has ever been.
Unarine Ramaru
In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent.
Trevor Noah
It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'.
Christina Engela
Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets a golden watch. And then, eventually, Somebody dies. And, a Nobody is buried.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The biggest gift to oneself is affording yourself a chance to learn.
Unarine Ramaru
Disagreeing with someone does not mean that they have to be enemies or opponents.
Christina Engela
High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You praise the firm restraint with which they write - I'm with you there of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right But where's the bloody horse?
Roy Campbell
A woman's endurance enabled your first breath.
Unarine Ramaru
Do not risk your life for someone who doesn't care about you.
Gugu Mona
What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be.
Damon Galgut
The simple truth of the matter is that people who complain about a peaceful parade which lasts at best one hour in a particular place - ONCE in a whole year - do so out of hatred and intolerance. it isn't just the parade, it is seeing gay and trans people in public - and gay and trans people BEING gay and trans in public. And that is the root of the problem - they HATE gay and trans people.
Christina Engela
Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.
Bryce Courtenay
There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Never let anything be a setback in your life, not even your thoughts, words nor actions.
Gugu Mona
GOD is The Author of Life.He is The Author and Finisher of Our Faith. GOD is not the author of confusion. Satan the devil is the author of confusion. the Pope does not speak for GOD. The Pope does not speak for Bible Believing Christians. The Babylonian System of Religion is a system that is based on the web of lies from the pits of hell. The Pope is part of that system.
Errol Anthony Smythe
We get most of our energy from complications.
Imraan Coovadia
There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we call them psychopaths), and there are people who have the capacity but choose not to exercise it.
J.M. Coetzee
I smile thinly, to make it clear that this will happen when hell turns into a family friendly summer resort.
Lauren Beukes
Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In our modern religion there is a reticence in speaking of our personal relationship to Jesus which often causes great loss. We forget that the majority of men are guided more by emotions than by intellect: the heart is the great power by which they are meant to be influenced and molded.
Andrew Murray
If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It feels like I was made to fit here, in the space beneath his heart.
Caroline Greyling
If I have to die, then it's best to do so before I see everything I love, the land, the animals, the people, all of it destroyed.
Wilbur Smith
Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.
Unarine Ramaru
*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.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Be thankful for every mountain, because it's the mountaintop that will give you best view of the world.
Gift Gugu Mona
You weren't born to be a spectator of others while they live life to the fullest. You too were born to make the world a better place, so put your talents into good use.
Gift Gugu Mona
Speaking about work isn’t working.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them).
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
What could be more intimate than dying with someone?
Sarah Lotz
I believe, Sebastian, that novels are more important than ever. They are more important than video recorders and record players and television because they enable us to exercise our minds. They allow us to step back and see where the history is taking us.
Imraan Coovadia
There is nothing wrong with dreaming, but there is everything wrong with dreaming without any intention to make the dream a reality.
Unarine Ramaru
Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension.
Alan Hirsch
Success requires, a human touch, intuitive powers and provocative thinking processes
Julian Pencilliah
It seems to me that wherever religion and politics mix in one body, fascist values - and not 'family values' - rear their ugly head.
Christina Engela
I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.
Elon Musk
Tracey hurriedly shut the door behind her to prevent the flames that had been licking hungrily at her caboose all the way down the corridor, from following her inside. Then, almost falling into one of the gravity couches, she hurriedly strapped herself into it before punching the emergency release. She hoped the escape system still worked. It did. The explosive dead-bolts fired, shaking the pod loose, dislodging it from the rapidly disintegrating wreck, just about shaking the crap out of her on its bone-jarring way into the great wide open.
Christina Engela
I became a chameleon. My color didn't change, but I could change your perception of my color. If you spoke Zulu, I replied to you in Zulu. If you spoke to me in Tswana, I replied to you in Tswana. Maybe I didn't look like you, but if I spoke like you, I was you.
Trevor Noah
If you 'don't do politics', trust me - politics will do you.
Christina Engela
Sometimes you will do good and not get an acknowledgement for it. Don't let that dishearten you, the world is a better place with your good deeds.
Gugu Mona
Ambition is greed without makeup.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
How very like humans to pervert a message of love and peace to make it into an ideology of war and oppression to serve their own ends.
Christina Engela
When men are ruled by fear they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
Alan Paton
REAL Entrepreneurs will be the one's who change the world for the better.Governments must become PUBLIC servants to create the best context and mindsets for people to succeed. We need to ReThink Entrepreneurial success and the role of Public Service in supporting that... or we, and our children, will pay the ultimate price.
Tony Dovale
Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong
Tony Dovale
Talent does not search for the person, in fact the person needs to search for the talent inside him and take it out to show the world.
Unarine Ramaru
Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.
Ashlee Vance
Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The original KDF-wagen as it was called was basic and rudimentary, but essentially the same as the later post war production cars that followed. Features of this vehicle included cable operated brakes (!!) and a tiny 800cc flat four motor with a single exhaust, 16 inch tires and the KDF twin glove compartment (without lids) dash.Oh, and last but not least – probably the most famous and sought-after rear window in automotive history!
Christina Engela
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.
Christina Engela