Quotes by South African Authors - Page 16

If you expect me to respect your private beliefs and faith and your rights and dignity as a person, how can you actually expect that from me if you are unwilling to reciprocate and continue to incite hatred and the vilification of mine.
Christina Engela
God made the world like a knife. We have the choice to take it by the handle or the blade.
C.J. Langenhoven
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.
Christiaan Barnard
What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Christians believe their God gave us all free will - strange that for over 2000 years, they have tried to take that choice away.
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
If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I’ll tell you what I don’t believe, Alwyn. I don’t believe there’s a pretty forest in the sky with castles and a white light and God and all his angels waiting to welcome all the good people in. And you and me standing there sick with nerves while they check us out to see if we’ve made the grade. That sounds too much like immigrating to Australia.
Beverly Rycroft
Even though death is the worst thing to go through, Heaven is still the best place to go to.
Gugu Mona
GOD is The Author of Life.He is The Author and Finisher of Our Faith. GOD is not the author of confusion. Satan the devil is the author of confusion. the Pope does not speak for GOD. The Pope does not speak for Bible Believing Christians. The Babylonian System of Religion is a system that is based on the web of lies from the pits of hell. The Pope is part of that system.
Errol Anthony Smythe
It's disheartening that most Christians will still miss Heaven because Christians today have forgotten that Heaven is meant for those who declare Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, then confirm that declaration with action
Gift Gugu Mona
As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I am happy to see you, Maso
Damon Galgut
The Doktor was very vond, I mean fond of Vluffy, so he gave him a flame-proof doggie-jacket. It was dull grey, but it had a tartan pattern on it. Vluffy liked his doggie-jacket and wore it all the time. When things went ‘bang’ he could just roll over, dust himself off and quickly scamper off with the doggie jacket flapping on his back. So in short, Vluffy was a very happy little dog who spent a lot of his time hiding under furniture. But the point is that he’d had a lot of time. Much more than those who went (up in smoke) before him.
Christina Engela
Inspiration works on the same sense as humans, quite generous yet impatient. When it calls, better respond there and then or it moves shop.
Unarine Ramaru
Clothes are a homeless man’s home.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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
Sabotage isolated them from their home, thwarting any hope of outside help. Frantic, unreliable sightings of frightening things – horrible things - led to chaos. The crew, terrified, opted to die fighting and went hunting for their attacker. Kaine’s only regret was that they found it. It killed them all.Systematically.
Christina Engela
Hands burn for a stone, a bomb, to shiver down the glass. Nothing's changed.
Tatamkhulu Afrika
There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range
Mpho Leteng
Who knows why our kids do what they do? All we can do is just love them." - Fenella
Cindy Vine
Validate yourself and know that you can achieve great things.
Gift Gugu Mona
To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Florrie smiles with unmoderated joy, because she can't see that most people bank their happiness like it's something you might run out of
Lauren Beukes
This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures of the century, artists, painters and sculptors want acceptance from and approval. They want to be looked up to. Young and upcoming poets must approach their craft with an almost angelic perspective. So many writers are missing a condensed fusion in their writing, they condescend to their audience, the truth is not spoken in their work, they gabble, their words seem to make a hot fuss on the page. What do they gain? They gain this, simply nothing. Poets must assemble and present their work accordingly to how they see fit and should be careful of advice from other writers and editors. Sometimes there can be too much going on in the words that are meant to be given with the best of intentions.
Abigail George
Spam is a waste of the receivers’ time, and, a waste of the sender’s optimism.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
REAL Leaders are experts at bringing out the best in others... Thinking , feelings and actions. They improve their teams' thinking skills and Mindsets.
Tony Dovale
Performance depends upon our actions an behaviors, which are activated by emotions, which are created when our MINDSET meets reality... Mindsets Matter Most
Tony Dovale
With the right Mindset...effective thinking is automatic.
Tony Dovale
I shall not assess arguments and evidence for competing views about when human extinction will occur. We know it will occur, and this fact has a curious effect on my argument. In a strange way it makes my argument an optimistic one. Although things are now not the way they should be—there are people when there should be none—things will someday be the way they should be—there will be no people. In other words, although things are now bad, they will be better, even if they first get worse with the creation of new people. Some may wish to be spared this kind of optimism, but some optimists may take a measure of comfort in this observation.
David Benatar
Communists are the last optimists.
Nadine Gordimer
Wishes are sometimes just stories that have nowhere to go.
Yvette Christiansë
There is no ‘what if’. Only in stories.
Claire Robertson
The original stories are mined out, and all that’s left is fool’s gold.
Lauren Beukes
You’re telling stories again. You have the disease of telling stories, Roland.
Imraan Coovadia
Qualifications or not without gratitude you not qualified enough to be a leader.
Unarine Ramaru
You cannot define success and do that exceptionally well without a mention of "gratitude".
Unarine Ramaru
Gratitude does not mean the absence of solitude, but the presence of a positive attitude in spite of.
Gift Gugu Mona
I choose to say it is well even when it is not, because in every situation I find myself in, I still learn from it.
Gift Gugu Mona
Gratitude will make you feel great, choose to be grateful.
Gift Gugu Mona
ReThink your success mindset: In life, the stuff that really matters most, is invisible, but palpable.
Tony Dovale
ReThink culture, because it is the foundation of all strategic success.
Tony Dovale
Everyday is an opportunity to come up with a possible resolution that you can achieve.
Unarine Ramaru
Be the consequence of finding inspiration not rent-a-storage for one.
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
I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.
Nadine Gordimer
The toughest thing worth losing is Pride.
Unarine Ramaru
It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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
Humility is the acknowledgement that without God you wouldn't have made it thus far.
Gift Gugu Mona
Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.
Andrew Murray
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.
Andrew Murray
Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust.
Andrew Murray
Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others; it is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God, and allows Him as God to do all.
Andrew Murray
Stand by; for I am holier than you!" What a parody on holiness! Jesus the Holy One is the humble One: the holiest will ever be the humblest. There is none holy but God: we have as much of holiness as we have of God.
Andrew Murray
when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, ofhell.
Andrew Murray