Quotes by South African Authors - Page 42

Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, you can hear them echoing forever within the second sphere.
J.M. Coetzee
I told you before, I don’t want out of this marriage. And if you give me nothing but daughters for the next twenty years, I would consider myself blessed.
Natasha Anders
If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. … during the week.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Even though death is the worst thing to go through, Heaven is still the best place to go to.
Gugu Mona
There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others and comforting those that are sad.
Olive Schreiner
It was only in the middle—between the immense and the minute—that sadness seemed to exist.
Alex Latimer
Some lesson are learnt the hard way, but worthy.
Gift Gugu Mona
When you surround yourself with dramatic people, your life will be driven by drama instead of destiny.
Gift Gugu Mona
Sexual arousal and penal erections are associated with both altered states of consciousness and sleep.
James David Lewis-Williams
Introspection is not a privilege, you don't have to subscribe to it. On any occasion you can discover wisdom and oneself.
Unarine Ramaru
Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God’s grace and God’s love for us… Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others. - God Has a Dream, p. 86.
Desmond Tutu
12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To create extraordinary results, you must first have or ReThink an extraordinary Mindset to start.
Tony Dovale
They make friends, they laugh, they shareThey stay in touch, they care.
Christina Engela
There would be fewer absent fathers, if straight men were turned on only by women with whom they would not mind having children.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The principal aim of a vision quest is to ‘see’ a spirit animal that will become the quester’s animal-helper and source of his power.
James David Lewis-Williams
It is not the Church name that matters, but a Christ like character from every Christian that makes a difference.
Gift Gugu Mona
Giving up doesn't make you a quiter, a loser or a failure.It makes you wise enough to stop holding on to what refuses to be held.Hence i say, letting go hurts,but holding on to what is no longer therehurts even more.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The harder you work the luckier you get.
Gary Player
Apparently some people (who don't know history) seem to think that marriage 'always has been' exclusively between males and females - and that this modern inequality somehow justifies the enforced continuation of this inequality.
Christina Engela
Just saying "I love you" can mean the difference between nothing and everything. Some people say it while they stab the person they say it to - some say it to the one holding the knife.
Christina Engela
When one person gets cancer, the whole family gets cancer.
Shirley Corder
Water is becoming a very scarce resource on a daily basis. Therefore, we need to teach communities to preserve it since we can't afford to live without water.
Gugu Mona
So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks."Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?""I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.
Lauren Beukes
Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.
J.M. Coetzee
Not every single way of saying the right thing is right.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When I look back to where I come from, I realize it's for a good reason that God changed my life.
Gugu Mona
Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life.
Tony Dovale
Patriotism is a myth conceived by those old rogues to draw us into the infernal game. Let them fight as they will, but we want no part of it.
Wilbur Smith
Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he’s shown his colors, run the people, making laws. Experience, there’s the test.
Nelson Mandela
I felt the full breadth and depth of the ocean around the sphere of the Earth, back billions of years to the beginning of life, across all the passing lives and deaths, the endless waves of swimming joy and quiet losses of exquisite creatures with fins and fronds, tentacles and wings, colourful and transparent, tiny and huge, coming and going. There is nothing the ocean has not seen
Sally Andrew
Intuition goes before you, showing you the way. Emotion follows behind, to let you know when you go astray. Listen to your inner voice. It is the calling of your spiritual GPS system seeking to keep you on track towards your true destiny.
Anthon St. Maarten
Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.
Nelson Mandela
When prayer replace work then poverty takes over
Nicky Verd
To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Nelson Mandela
Vents were added to the rear bonnet in 1972 and resulted in wet engines and starting problems, and then extra drip-trays to compensate. From 1968 the Beetle got the right side fuel flap that dodgy people used to break open to steal your gas – or your fuel cap – another hard to find item if lost!
Christina Engela
A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.
J.M. Coetzee
Unlike wealth, fame makes it easier for some men and more difficult for some to sleep around.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.
Nelson Mandela
Value those who give you constructive criticism, because without them doing so, you will never reach the peak of what you are do.
Unarine Ramaru
Curious that a man as selfish as he should be offering himself to the service of dead dogs. There must be other, more productive ways of giving oneself to the world, or to an idea of the world... But there are other people to do these things - the animal welfare thing, the social rehabilitation thing, even the Byron thing. He saves the honour of corpses because there is no one else stupid enough to do it.
J.M. Coetzee
If you got a dream, you are good to go. The only extra luggage you will need is self-belief and perseverance.
Unarine Ramaru
Since her diagnoses she has been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.
Danielle Esplin
Dating a wo/man with a child is adoption … without the paperwork.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The more you know, the less you talk. The less you talk, the more you know.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.
Nelson Mandela
Not everyone who condemns masturbation can masturbate.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A praiseworthy King is he who doesn't seek the most expensive throne, rather the most effective leadership style.
Gugu Mona
If you are not successful yet, the mindset that got you to where you are today, Cannot get you to where you dream to be tomorrow!You need to Rethink Your Mindset to Ensure Success.
Tony Dovale
An educated woman is seen as a human being with a vagina. An uneducated woman is seen as a vagina with a human being.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If I let the past and my goals be the only thing that drives me in life, I will never know the meaning of being happy.
Unarine Ramaru
Knowing who you are is more valuable than having ten 'friends' who don't even know who they are, but who judge you anyway.
Christina Engela
Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We bear the world and we make it. ... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.
Olive Schreiner