Quotes by South African Authors - Page 45

Association brings impartation
Dorothy Nthako
A performance must capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment.
Unarine Ramaru
A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolu
Nelson Mandela
In a nice little house in Atro City there lived a man called Doktor Gleichstein. He was a kind of scientist, and he was very good at his job, which is why he always worked from home. He looked a little funny because he kept losing his eyebrows. Quantum Physics, is sort of like ordinary Physics, only you tend to spend a lot more time looking for the cat. He worked in the sitting room because he’d blown the garage up once already. Apparently a lot of things happened by accident in Quantum Physics.
Christina Engela
If you value your relationship or friendship, your ego won't stand in the way of a meaningful apology.
Unarine Ramaru
Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Do not fear to give yourself a chance that will change you for the better.
Gift Gugu Mona
Moer and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth in South Africa.
J.M. Coetzee
Every time you hurt my heart, you are actually making it stronger than before.
Gift Gugu Mona
War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks.
Irma Joubert
I don't know. I got nothing. No house, no people, no place. Maybe that's troubles. Don't I say?
Alex La Guma
We need to consciously remember that we have an unprecedented responsibility to protect the planet, because without it we have nowhere else to live.
Gugu Mona
You are my friend because I saw my ability to increase my knowledge around you.
Unarine Ramaru
Qualifications or not without gratitude you not qualified enough to be a leader.
Unarine Ramaru
You don’t have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - there’s a difference between thinking to oneself and thinking as a form of conversation, even if there are no answers.
Nadine Gordimer
And so it is, that if you believe it you can honestly choose what you want to be. But choose carefully, with your intuition, and have the courage to trust your choice! It is vital that we allow our self the privilege of quite space, for it is there we discover the passion that drives us to our heart's desire, to our destiny.
Braam Malherbe
*Nothing is free* asserts two things. Both assertions are true.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! It calls out to love in an attempt to save myself. I don’t want to be one of those people who live their lives with boils, septic wounds and broken bones bleeding inside.
Phindiwe Nkosi
To a blind man, pawn shop and porn shop are one. To an unintelligent man, oversleeping and sleeping over are opposites.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
For the duration of his erection: To a horny man, all women are the most beautiful woman in the world.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn’t.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen.Yes it is this very fact of slaying her language.That gives my soul its melodies.
Malebo Sephodi
A psychic reading is not just about career opportunities, good fortune or meeting tall, dark strangers. It is a sacred portal to manifesting your true destiny.
Anthon St. Maarten
Your Results will only change when you change your mindset, thinking and actions.
Tony Dovale
I will once again keep my eyes open to the changes so that I won't miss even a single spec of chance. Life is possible, believe it, LIFE'S POSSIBLE!
Mphezulu Xetho Dainamyk
Who knows why our kids do what they do? All we can do is just love them." - Fenella
Cindy Vine
People who regularly abuse power don't like being laughed at'.
Pieter-Dirk Uys
Meeting, for the first time in person, someone that you’ve ‘known’ for sometime online = Taking the relationship to the ‘previous’ level.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The art of writing is the manipulation of words to ease the mind and free the imagination
Danielle M. Maistry
When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Ask and you shall receive; everyone that asks receives.  This is the fixed eternal law of the kingdom:  If you ask and receive not, it must be because there is something amiss or wanting in the prayer. Hold on; let the Word and Spirit teach you to prat aright, but do not let go the confidence he seeks to waken:  Everyone who asks receives....Let every learner in the school of Christ therefore take the Master's word in all simplicity....Let us beware of weakening the word with our human wisdom.
Andrew Murray
Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you.
Unarine Ramaru
There are many monsters, oh, many!
Damon Galgut
To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
© Carlyle Labuschagne 2014" As I watched her run down the path and melt with the shadows, I wasn't sure how to feel about her, or the fact that I may just have aided in her escape and doomed us all. I wanted to believe that anyone given a second chance would use it wisely. But wisdom I guess is hard to obtain when destiny stands in its way.
Carlyle Labuschagne
And It was said to me: "embrace the glorious mess you are". How easy it is to see darkness in the winter shedding and not see that even in its gloominess lies great beauty. That even in our great struggles - lies within a great victory. How then does the Spring green come about without the fertilisation of the Winter brown? Isn't it the very brown that gives way and life to the green we await to goggle in awe. There is power and sheer beauty in your mess. A true triumphing chaos that renders sweet melodic honey to your journey. So again it was whispered to me "embrace the glorious mess that you are
Malebo Sephodi
Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A live broke man is 'luckier' than a dead rich man.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In nude protests, the very same body that is objectified and subjected to endless scrutiny and policing is used to reclaim power.
Malebo Sephodi
No bird ever looked at a plane in envy
Iain Thomas
Some women would not cheat, and some would not have cheated, had they each married a man whom they love … or at least like.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Being rich is an untalented artist’s consolation prize.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Le Tub is a Miami oceanside restaurant that uses old bath tubs and toilets as decoration. If you're really lucky, you get a table by the water where you can see the manatees as they swim by. Someone once told me that it was one of Oprah's favorite restaurants, but seriously, Oprah has a lot of favorite things--it all sounds like lies at this point.
Tarryn Fisher
Learn from your past and be better because of your past, but don't cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don't hold on to it. Don't be bitter.
Trevor Noah
There are angels in nature walking amongst the trees and whispering the secret language of sacred things.
Jodi Sky Rogers
Prayer is not a court hearing, so when you pray don't aim to prove before God how others wronged you; because He knows every heart already.
Gift Gugu Mona
In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have spoken the unspoken we have not come to the heart of the story.
J.M. Coetzee
Some kids also think it makes them coolWhen they pick on other kids, being cruel.
Christina Engela
Primary consciousness is a kind of ‘remembered present’…
James David Lewis-Williams
The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Entering a cave” or rock was a metaphor for a shaman’s altered state; therefore, caves (and rocks more generally) were considered entrances or portals to the supernatural world.
James David Lewis-Williams
To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Have you a room that you could let?""Yes, I have a room that I could let, but I do not want to let it. I have only two rooms, and there are six of us already, and the boys and girls are growing up. But school books cost money, and my husband is ailing, and when he is well it is only thirty-five shillings a week. And six shillings of that is for the rent, and three shillings of that is for the rent, and three shillings for travelling, and a shilling that we may all be buried decently, and a shilling for the books, and three shillings is for clothes and that is little enough, and a shilling for my husband's beer, and a shilling for his tobacco, and these I do not grudge for he is a decent man and does not gamble or spend his money on other women, and a shilling for the Church, and a shilling for sickness. And that leaves seventeen shillings for food for six, and we are always hungry. Yes I have a room but I do not want to let it. How much could you pay?""I could pay three shillings a week for the room.""And I would not take it.""Three shillings and sixpence.""Three shillings and sixpence. You can't fill your stomach on privacy. You need privacy when your children are growing up, but you can't fill your stomach on it. Yes, I shall take three shillings and sixpence.
Alan Paton
Never take advice from a donkey.
Bryce Courtenay
Those who recite prayers do not pray from their heart but are heard to say the words of the prayers that someone wrote down some time ago.
Errol Anthony Smythe