Quotes by South African Authors - Page 8

It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.
Damon Galgut
REAL success, satisfaction and joy has nothing to do with owning STUFF!
Tony Dovale
The reason why I smile even in the midst of the storm is because I know that Jesus Christ will carry me through.
Gift Gugu Mona
But it was not the poor who ate the zoo animals in Paris.
Ceridwen Dovey
Shamans submit to death in order to serve their communities.
James David Lewis-Williams
Certainly, the sensory deprivation afforded by the remote, silent and totally dark chambers, such as the Diverticule of the Felines in Lascaux and the Horse’s Tail in Altamira, induces altered states of consciousness.
James David Lewis-Williams
No matter what the odds say, be even with who you truly are.
Unarine Ramaru
Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.
Cherry Adair
What I don’t understand about your type is that you want to emulate the other side. You kick up such a commotion about being different, and all you want is to be the same.
Damon Galgut
If you 'don't do politics' , trust me - politics will do you.
Christina Engela
What’s the difference?” I asked him. “Between the love of your life, and your soulmate?”“One is a choice, and one is not.
Tarryn Fisher
Imagine, if you will:Meradinis!The stuff myths are made of! The Turtle Island of the stars – home planet to the fearsome and once legendary Corsairs. The very name of this world immediately grabbed the imaginations of young boys and girls, and universally mesmerize dreamers and romantics alike. The truth though was less romantic – and as reality so often demonstrates in real life - instead rather ugly and brutal. The Corsairs were not corn-ball comics that went about with parrots on their shoulders, saying “Arr!” to everything they encountered. They were anything but. Behind the Corsairs and their culture lay a history fraught with a struggle to survive, a vengefulness and a cruelty – and a drive to survive by preying upon others that struck fear into the hearts of neighboring fringe worlds.
Christina Engela
Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
Nelson Mandela
That’s rich, coming from you, Hellcat, I would’ve thought it was impossible for a Vampire to get grey hairs until I met you! (Alexander)
Sharon Hannaford
The Lord chose to give me back my life, not because I deserved it, but because he had work for me to do.
Shirley Corder
It should be made clear that religious freedom DOES NOT include the right to persecute others, nor the right to take away their humanity and equal treatment before the law.
Christina Engela
Even the simple act of tuning the radio to a music program can lift our spirits and show the world "I'm not going to give up.
Shirley Corder
Some might claim that like the secret of flying is missing the ground, the secret to immortality is simply not dying.
Christina Engela
You have never asked for anything, yet you have become an albatross around my neck. Your bony arms are knotted behind my head, I walk bowed under the weight of you.
J.M. Coetzee
Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is an economy in your mind
Nicky Verd
When both partners strive for a marriage that honours and pleases God, they can be assured of an everlasting joy and peace.
Gugu Mona
It’s as if everyone got cancer the day I was diagnosed, except I’m their tumor.
Danielle Esplin
A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even when coming to opinions that have absolutely nothing to do with moneymaking.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Curiosity is always good if it is aimed at learning.
Unarine Ramaru
Planning is a skill and an art which takes a lifetime to master
Paddick Van Zyl
You cannot define success and do that exceptionally well without a mention of "gratitude".
Unarine Ramaru
Money makes the world go round; however, happiness greases the axle. Without this lubricant, life will seize.
Paul Van Der Merwe
Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Right now though, there is little that concerns me more than the impending assault on the human rights and equality of women and the pink community in South Africa. Right now there are events afoot in this country which justify my concern.
Christina Engela
In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’t see their face. We don’t see them as people.
Trevor Noah
Everything's better with zombies - NOT
Lily Herne
I want to commune with Christ and live in His fullness or I don't want anything to do with Christianity. I want all God has to offer.
Alan de Jager
[Mandela] had believed all his life that you are very much in control of your own body, and, in the process of healing, your mind had to be stronger than the medicines applied. You also had to have determination to get better.
Zelda la Grange
When the going gets tough: the poor close their eyes, the rich open their wallets.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Life requires more than a whisper of wisdom
Julian Pencilliah
Wait-a-minute!Reality kicked in after marking its spot `position vacant’ for the short and pleasant while. He groaned mournfully as he found himself staring at the inside of his own eyelids. The first thing that occurred to him was the terrible bone-wracking pain running up and down his spine. Pain? No, curiously enough. It was the memory of it that seemed to hurt so much. Maybe that’s what scared him. Or maybe it was the creaking of the ship around him…
Christina Engela
Liberals want all people to have choices open to them - which does not mean that everyone HAS to choose things they don't want to or don't agree with. Quite frankly, I don't see why any sane human being would have a problem with that?
Christina Engela
Worry is to human beings … what a condom is to a man with erectile dysfunction.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make).
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.
Desmond Tutu
The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
J.M. Coetzee
Life is too serious and precious for it to be left to chance. You have to make it your project to discover your purpose in life. You have to be intentional about it.
D.S Mashego
I realize that what happened in Bosnia could happen anywhere in the world, particularly in places that are diverse and have a history of conflict. It only takes bad leadership for a country to go up in flames, for people of different ethnicity, color, or religion to kill each other as if they had nothing in common whatsoever. Having a democratic constitution, laws that secure human rights, police that maintain order, a judicial system, and freedom of speech don't ultimately guarantee long lasting peace. If greedy or bloodthirsty leaders come to power, it can all go down. It happened to us. It can happen to you.
Savo Heleta
Never let fear control you, let faith take control.
Gift Gugu Mona
The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played with silly putty like the other kids. The first time he lost his eyebrows he was only five.
Christina Engela
Disclosing one's "deep, dark secrets" makes them no less deep or dark or secret than any other petty flaw.
Alan de Jager
People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
People who wear G-strings suffer from indecision.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The difference between the past and the present is that individual freedom and security no longer fall to be protected solely through the D vehicle of common-law maxims and presumptions which may be altered or repealed by statute, but are now protected by entrenched constitutional provisions which neither the Legislature nor the Executive may abridge. It would accordingly be improper for us to hold constitutional a system which, as Sachs J has noted, confers on creditors the power to consign the person of an impecunious debtor to prison at will and without the interposition at the crucial time of a judicial officer.
Pius Langa
Sometimes the Lord allows us to go through tough times so we learn to rely upon Him.
Shirley Corder
In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve its sacredness
Malebo Sephodi
War erases progress, leaves no trace of improvement.
Graeme Smith
If you think about it for a moment, destiny is not a synonym of circumstance.
Unarine Ramaru
We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation, conduct, and character. There is no greater criterion for Christians. It is the paramount gauge of God's people.
W. Phillip Keller