Quotes by South African Authors - Page 28

This [egalitarianism vs complementarianism] is not an issue of chauvinism or discrimination. It is an issue of Biblical interpretation.
Alan de Jager
Was it me? Was I too cold? Too inexperienced? Not pretty enough? Not good enough in bed? And when disloyal, seed-sowing scum buckets slept with other girls, why did women look inward to find fault in themselves?
Tarryn Fisher
In the light of His example we can see, in the faith of His power we too can prove, that suffering is to God’s child the token of the Father’s love, and the channel of His richest blessing. [. . .]Suffering is the way of the rent veil, the new and living way Jesus walked in and opened for us.
Andrew Murray
After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.
Damon Galgut
The Word of GOD is Superior to the inferior words of men and the words of every false prophet and the teachings of every false religion.
Errol Anthony Smythe
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.
Gift Gugu Mona
Your assignment must at least better the lives of people around you and the world at large.
D.S Mashego
The only good cage is an empty cage.
Lawrence Anthony
We sometimes take photos (or record a video) so that we can later see what was happening while we were busy taking photos (or recording a video).
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man...there was only genuine everyday magic and mysticism. Children were not mocked or scolded in those days for singing to the rain or talking to the wind.
Anthon St. Maarten
Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT.
Christina Engela
It is nobody’s responsibility but yours to discover your assignment and to execute that very assignment.
D.S Mashego
It's not the dying but the manner of it.
Wilbur Smith
As a kid I understood that people were different colors, but in my head white and black and brown were like types of chocolate. Dad was the white chocolate, mom was the dark chocolate, and I was the milk chocolate. But we were all just chocolate. I didn’t know any of it had anything to do with “race.” I didn't know what race was. My mother never referred to my dad as white or to me as mixed. So when the other kids in Soweto called me "white", even though I was light brown, I just thought that they had their colors mixed up, like they hadn't learned them properly. "Ah, yes, my friend. You've confused aqua with turquoise. I can see how you made that mistake. You're not the first.
Trevor Noah
Some people don't like 'different', it makes them scaredOf people who aren't like them, I think that's weird.
Christina Engela
When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body — or vagina — has to do the opposite.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
What would Jesus do? One thins is obvious, if there is one thing Jesus would NOT do - is to behave like his followers.
Christina Engela
Other kids are kids almost just like you - it's true.Other kids are kids too, but there's no other you, but YOU!
Christina Engela
Dear young aspiring leader, one day you will be in a position of power. That shouldn't let you enslave nor look down upon others, but aim to influence change for the benefit of future generations.
Gugu Mona
Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.
Christina Engela
The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Sometimes I'm tired simply means I need something new.
Phumi Ngwane
When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
That was my mom. Don't fight the system. Mock the system.
Trevor Noah
One day I asked God to move the mountain ahead of me, but he said no because he wanted me to experience the joy of being on a mountain top.
Gift Gugu Mona
All of them would understand, as he did now, that he had crossed a line in himself, he had left their world behind, the decent world of tea parties and suburban witticisms.
Damon Galgut
Not many Ruminarii warships had ever been captured intact by any enemy, and so for those the Ruminarii “invited” aboard their vessels, this was usually a one-way sight-seeing trip. For those who really want to know, Ruminarii Hammerheads have an extensive corridor network, the interior walls are heavily decorated, savagely militaristic and inevitably, close together. He strode down one. Lesser ranks seeing him, fell to the deck and groveled like their fingernails depended on it. There was a chorus of shrieks and whimpers as he passed. When he arrived on the bridge, everyone was face down on the deck, each endeavoring to grovel lower than the next. Nothing like discipline to keep the crew in its place.
Christina Engela
Like my loved one, I am convinced that we all have critical conditions. Battles that we undertake behind the hospitals, in lonely alleys, secret locations and sometimes public places that are out of reach to those who seem to care.
Phindiwe Nkosi
Powerful leaders use their position of power to empower others.
Gift Gugu Mona
Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world and a new understanding for her.
Trevor Noah
Some of today’s slaves sleep on king size beds.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You cannot fix racism with more racism.
Christina Engela
My wandering imagination never gives up on me and always finds ways to explore what my emotions entail.
Chimnese Davids
We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The news is glorified gossip.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You're a hope-killer. 'Cause at least if you'd done it on your back, that's something we c'n understand. Something we c'n do ourselves. But kindness? Luck like that-- it's a million-to-one chance, and you already took the one chance going.
Michelle Diener
It is better to wait until you get the right thing, at the right time and in the right place; than to race for the wrong thing, at the wrong time and in the wrong place, for it yields nothing but disgrace.
Gift Gugu Mona
It's the easiest thing in the world to be kind to someone, to show love, to forgive. You are born with this instinct - it should be your first reaction. NOT violence, anger and hatred! That is something we are taught, it's a Choice You Make.
Michelle Horst
Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The right mindset is the most powerful force we can use to positively change the world.
Tony Dovale
Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
No one should ever be allowed to make you feel unworthy of becoming wealthy. Your wealth lies mainly upon your understanding of your worth.
Gift Gugu Mona
The baby, when he or she is ready to be born, will send a message that tells the mother’s body that it is ready. The mother’s body can then begin labour by slowly releasing oxytocin, the hormone of love. The mother and baby work together to bring the baby into the world.
Ruth Ehrhardt
In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.
Marlene Van Niekerk
Always distance yourself from gossip, because it is the worst form of self-disruption.
Gift Gugu Mona
Great leaders do not fear challenges, because challenges don't break leaders but sharpens them.
Gift Gugu Mona
Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Damage report, sir?” Skotchdopole asked, climbing off his console into his seat.“To hell with that!” he roared, this was no accidental side-effect of arriving – it was clear they were under attack by hostile aliens. “Fire! Shoot the crap outta them!
Christina Engela
Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is always wonderful to see how beautiful other people's hearts can be.
Gift Gugu Mona
We came to life to leave a mark, either a wrong or right! So what route is your lifestyle taking?
Unarine Ramaru
Doubt is an obstacle to success, and success is how you control the doubt.
Unarine Ramaru
Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is interesting how - depending on the person in power - our LGBT issues are either right at the top of the list - or right at the very bottom. And almost always for exactly the wrong reasons.
Christina Engela
Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana