Quotes by South African Authors - Page 6

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.
J.M. Coetzee
Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can’t see.”- Lady Lalaigne
Jeanine Henning
During the prayers of the day, there was one less “amen”.
Phindiwe Nkosi
To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Everyone changes so slowly, they don't even know that they have. And everyone likes to pretend that things are just the same yet they look at you like you could bring something back that's supposed to already be here. But home is a time. Not just a place.
Iain Thomas
We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The one ring, to rule them all’? Sounds very far-fetched to me!
Graham Downs
It is the best investment to make an impact on others, because even when you're dead money alone will not bury you.
Gift Gugu Mona
A push-up bra is to a woman’s chest … what 'breathing-in' is to a man’s stomach.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Even ivory towers need central heating.
Breyten Breytenbach
Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You don’t really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they’ve recommended to you.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some friends give bad advice because they live a bad life.
Errol Anthony Smythe
Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.
Nelson Mandela
Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Playing Solitaire is a non-smoking employee’s smoke break.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Raven shook her head more violently and opened her mouth, a loud shriek filled the room and Amari realised what was about to happen, she ducked down and wrapped her arms around her head, just as the mirror shattered over her
Sian B. Claven
We cannot keep on blaming the past leaders about the present circumstances. We need to be mindful that if we do nothing to improve the present circumstances, our children will also blame us in the future.
Gugu Mona
He with the cleanest clothes isn’t necessarily the cleanest.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The real reason the number of things that are shared via social media every single minute is so astronomical is because, whenever they each do, most users do not share or say something because they believe they have something worth remembering; they do mainly or only because they fear being forgotten.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There's no need to lay low. Go right ahead and give the world your brilliance
Nicky Verd
If you employed a strategy that is not conducive to the results you are looking for, then you will not achieve the desired result. You have to understand that it’s not you that failed; it’s just that you employed the wrong strategy.
Julian Pencilliah
As far back as I can remember, there has always been a place to which I belonged with a certainty that nothing has been able to take from me. When I say place, that means less a geographical locality and more a group of people with whom I am connected and to whom I belong.
Sindiwe Magona
I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Forgiveness is the only way to heal ourselves and to be free from the past. Without forgiveness, we remain tethered to the person who harmed us. We are bound to the chains of bitterness, tied together, trapped. Until we can forgive the person who harmed us, that person will hold the keys to our happiness, that person will be our jailor. When we forgive, we take back control of our own fate and our feelings. We become our own liberator.
Desmond Tutu
Some people are so boring that you are more bored when you are with them … than when you are alone.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He stands on the stone table and selects a large fig, bites into the skin, then opens it with his fingers. He thinks of a woman's sex, ancient and eternal, no young girl would have such gritty sweetness. Was this not perhaps the fruit that got Adam and Eve thrown out of Eden? Who would want to give up an unblemished state of immortality for the insipid apple?
Achmat Dangor
To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Self-employment killed the weekend.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I don't want to be rich yet live a life of unhappiness, but I also don't want to be poor because I have never seen happiness in poverty.
Gugu Mona
You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
What is your talent? What are your interests? What resources do you have at your disposal? What can you do? What would you like to do? What can you do? You could apply your outrage to activism. Get involved. Do something.
Christina Engela
You can have it all,Luxury and wealth,A lot of friends and a good health,And own everything on earth.However, if you have greed,Jealousy, bitter and want not to see anyone get ahead in life.A dumping site is better than you because not everything found on a dumping site has no value.Plastics can be recycled,And some goods are not too bad to be used again.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
When rich, being poor seems *adventurous.*
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue.
Christina Engela
What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with a readiness to fail and fail again?
J.M. Coetzee
There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason.
J.M. Coetzee
It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.
Nelson Mandela
When there is no leverage or no incentive, all brains get stuck.
Tony "Mindset Matters" Dovale
It's ONLY with a NEW MINDSET and a SWIFT Action that you can span the gap between WHO and WHERE you are, and WHO and WHERE/WHAT you want to BE, DO and HAVE
Tony Dovale
Are we all, at heart, just Internet trolls?
Sarah Lotz
Without desire how is it possible to make a story?
JM Coetzee
The success of any country relies on the commitment of its leaders to serve others.
Gift Gugu Mona
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation
Nelson Mandela
The most unfair thing about sex is that men are almost always guaranteed an orgasm.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The biggest problem in AFRICA, is the government/public service leaders ensure that the education system teaches people WHAT to think, and NOT HOW TO THINK. It embeds a Fixed Mindest of Learned Helplessness. We can ReThink Resilience and psycap to transform the people, but the leaders won't be too happy when the voters can think beyond learned helplessness and a go beyond a limiting culture 2000 years out of date.We need to Rethink Education and culture in the digital age.
Tony Dovale
Anyone can be rich and not everyone can be successful.
Unarine Ramaru
Sexual starvation forces a heterosexual man to see beauty in every single female who he can sleep with without his society’s disapproval.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Teams Triumph When Today's Tribe Leaders Transform Their Mindset.
Tony Dovale
As humans we need each other to give meaning to the word happy!
Unarine Ramaru
An employer’s fart is music to his employees’ ears.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is no such thing as time management. There is only the mindset that optimally manages the self and its actions.
Tony Dovale
We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen].
Mokokoma Mokhonoana