Quotes by South African Authors - Page 26

My mother always said - "Never run after a man or a bus - there is always another one coming.
Tessa Kiros
If she had learnt any lesson today it was that men were stupid, helpless creatures made needlessly cruel by their terror of showing their feelings.
Jayne Bauling
Generally, men prefer dating women they love over women who love them; women prefer the opposite.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To a misogynist: To err is woman.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The only things that all men want is a woman that respects him and challenge his intelligence plus ambitions.
Unarine Ramaru
The true wealth of a man is not what's in his pocket, but what's in his heart.
Unarine Ramaru
Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The favour of God, forfeits the failure of men.
Gift Gugu Mona
Meradinis! Turtle Island! It was a little corner of chaos!This was the scene the speeding black ship had left behind three days ago, fleeing in humiliating shame, those three days a constant running battle. For three days the accursed Imperial ship Indomitable had followed, firing on them at every opportunity. Death or imprisonment now awaited those who called themselves Corsairs – and though this death was now more certain rather than just a possibility, Sona Kilroy, or “The Hammer” as he was called by his men, was not prepared to give up his freedom so easily. Piracy was his life and he’d known no other. He was tough and cruel, a despicable man, a case in point when academics quoted the barbarism by which the Corsairs had made themselves known and feared across the star systems of the peaceful Terran Empire.
Christina Engela
The favour of God forfeits the failure of men.
Gift Gugu Mona
If men could become pregnant - or be legally raped, or understand the unsubtle differences between 'yes' and 'no', i am certain you would soon see them change their tune about abortion and the treatment and trivialization of the suffering of rape victims.
Christina Engela
Men, she decided, were a strange, thick-skulled, ball-kicking species no one on earth could have a sensible conversation with.
Irma Joubert
Lord, thank you for the people who care more about me than about their schedules.
Shirley Corder
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
The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Friends are family members we have a choice over.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Hanging around people you’re smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To gain height, lose all your tall friends.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
After our loved one dies: we cry, not because they left; but because they left us.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Your friends love you for who you are. Your family loves you for what you are.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and people that they do not even like. The same can be said about wealth.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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
Friends for life?Why? How long have I got?
Christina Engela
They make friends, they laugh, they shareThey stay in touch, they care.
Christina Engela
Some friends give bad advice because they live a bad life.
Errol Anthony Smythe
Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A slice of bread eaten is a million times more nourishing than a loaf of bread imagined.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To masturbate is to imagine: physically.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The imagination is always the best torturer.
Bryce Courtenay
1 Minute Wisdom: Rethink Your Success Mindset because...Whatever you create in your imagination and dreams, will require the right mindset to manifest in reality.
Tony Dovale
Art is a mirror of time, it must reflect a moment.
Unarine Ramaru
A performance does not capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment.
Unarine Ramaru
In books and movies, all the loose ends are tired, things are resolved, mysteries are solved, they catch the killer, the boy gets the girl, a sick baby is miraculously healed. In reality it doesn't always work that way. The killer gets away, the girl is in love with another boy, things just get buried under new dramas and don't get resolved. Life is far more complicated than the life depicted in a book or a movie.
Cindy Vine
You are heir to a heavenly fortune, the sole beneficiary of an infinite spiritual trust fund, a proverbial goldmine of sacred abundance beyond all common measure or human comprehension. But until you assert your rightful inheritance of this blessed gift, it will remain unclaimed and forever beyond your reach.
Anthon St. Maarten
The majority of everything has always been judged and manipulated by and on a minority's deeds
Deon Potgieter
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
I am not moved by riches and fame, but selflessness and a passion for humanity.
Gugu Mona
Do not compare yourself to others because you are neither superior nor inferior to them.
Gugu Mona
Learn to be your own best friend first then you will find true happiness, because happiness is from within.
Gift Gugu Mona
That was my mom. Don't fight the system. Mock the system.
Trevor Noah
(…) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' (…) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness.
Lauren Beukes
I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.
Nadine Gordimer
It was only in the middle—between the immense and the minute—that sadness seemed to exist.
Alex Latimer
Behind these eyesthere is a girl trapped withinher pain – a girl feeling all the emotionsof anger and sadness.She’s fighting for a way out.” (In her eyes, p. 39)
Chimnese Davids
The poorer your self-esteem and the lower your self-confidence, the more easily negative feelings can overwhelm ordinary good sense.
Julian Short
We are all hungry for love, acceptance and belonging. Rejection can still feel like death.
Julian Short
Happiness requires a balance. If you feel rejected, you need to pursue love with dignity. If you feel put down you need to restore your dignity in an attractive fashion.
Julian Short
Feelings can have a life of their own and you have very little direct control over them, except perhaps to make them worse.
Julian Short
Once upon a time, loss of love, rejection, weakness and loss of territory all meant death. Now it just feels that way.
Julian Short
The heart aches in brokenness as daylight awakens the pain of knowing.
Phindiwe Nkosi
I realized that whilst crying over the loss, the living did not seem adequate because they were not my loved one. The room full of strangers hurt me profusely. Even as I saw thousands of young people; I felt incomplete and more saddened because the one I wanted to see was buried.
Phindiwe Nkosi
They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever you call space--atoms infinitely minute, beyond conception of existence, are up there forever, from the whole world, from all time.
Nadine Gordimer
Free is he who is reputable for not being fearful of losing his reputation.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He who acquired all his wealth by *being at the right place at the right time* is hypocritical by being angry for losing all his wealth because of his *being at the wrong place at the wrong time.*
Mokokoma Mokhonoana